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  • Millennial Journalists Behaving Badly

    Millennial Journalists Behaving Badly0

    On Friday, former Wall Street Journal writer Bret Stephens wrote his first column for the New York Times. And boy, did it cause a fuss. The column, headlined “Climate of Complete Certainty,” politely pushed back on the idea that the narrative of climate change is settled science. Stephens, referencing an article penned by Times writer

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  • How May Day Went From a Religious Holiday to a Socialist One

    How May Day Went From a Religious Holiday to a Socialist One0

    It’s the Merry Month of May: Spring is bursting, the birds are singing…and political riots are detonating.  Without a doubt, May is a month with motley associations—natural, religious, and political.  In many ancient cultures May 1 was regarded as the full arrival of Spring, as expressed in the traditions of dancing around the maypole and

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  • 3 Warning Signs Your Life is a Sitcom About Nothing

    3 Warning Signs Your Life is a Sitcom About Nothing0

    Mo Gawdat is the Chief Business Officer at Google X—the “moonshot’ division of Google that is responsible for speculative projects, such as Google’s driverless cars. Devastated by the sudden and unexpected loss of his beloved teenage son, Ali, Gawdat decided to put his engineering mindset into analyzing what produces happiness. Happiness, Gawdat writes in his

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  • 3 Reasons One Public School Advocate is Giving Up on the System

    3 Reasons One Public School Advocate is Giving Up on the System0

    When it comes to discussion of public schools, all too often battle lines seem to be drawn between those on the inside and outside of the system: the teachers and the parents. The teachers understandably want to defend the job they do, while the parents want to ensure that their child doesn’t become another dismal

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  • Why Joel Osteen is the Perfect Pastor for Our Times

    Why Joel Osteen is the Perfect Pastor for Our Times5

    For years, I’ve sort of known who Joel Osteen is. If you walk into a bookstore, his giant, smiling face seems everywhere. But until a couple of weeks ago, I had never heard Osteen preach. Meet the Press had just concluded this last Sunday, and I was slow to turn the TV off. As I

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  • Why All-Men’s Colleges Are Under Siege

    Why All-Men’s Colleges Are Under Siege0

    There are over 4,000 colleges and universities in the United States. There are only four that are all male. But that is at least one too many, apparently. A California Appeals Court ruled last week that Deep Springs College, a school with only twenty-six students, may start admitting women. Founded a century ago by industrialist

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