Blog 3 Columns

Why Don’t We Call It Rape or Child Molestation When a Woman is the Perp?1
- Culture
- January 19, 2017
On the day I wrote this story, the headline of the number one story on the Washington Post website was this: “Texas teacher who had sex almost daily with 13-year-old student gets 10 years in prison.” Despite the fact that the offense was technically rape, which is why the teacher, Alexandria Vera, is now spending a decade
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The Radical Skepticism of Impressionism 0
- Culture
- January 19, 2017
Impressionism … is another name for that final skepticism which can find no floor to the universe. – G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who was Thursday The great writer G. K. Chesterton delighted in paradoxes, those apparent contradictions that point to a deeper truth. Sometimes, however, the paradoxes are so shocking to our senses or our
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Raising Sons in the Age of Trump 0
- Culture
- January 19, 2017
One of the most disturbing facets of the wave of hysteria sweeping half the nation in the wake of Donald Trump’s presidential election victory is the recent trend of feminist confessionals about their problematic feelings for their male children. In a recent opinion piece for The Sydney Morning Herald, self-declared feminist Polly Dunning, herself the daughter of a
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Professor: The Perks of One-Room Schools 0
- Education
- January 19, 2017
In recent years, many have looked to technology to be the panacea for America’s education problems. Surely, the thinking goes, an iPad in every set of hands will open the floodgates to knowledge that can be personalized to every child. But former public school teacher and current college professor Dr. John Schrock disagrees that looking
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Is There Room For Pro-Life Women in the Women’s Rights Movement?0
- Culture
- January 19, 2017
“Women” is a big word, so you would expect an event billed as a “women’s march” to be a very broad church. But the “Women’s March on Washington” scheduled for Saturday, the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration as president, has become rather sectarian, with the unintended consequence that pro-life women are getting some air time
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How Teachers Are Doing Violence to Books 0
- Education
- January 19, 2017
My friend’s daughter attends a local school with a classical curriculum, where they are now reading Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Many people would hear this and immediately laud the school for its rigor and devotion to the Great Books. But predictably, as my friend’s daughter told me, the teacher is guiding students through the text
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Does This Philosopher’s 30-Year-Old Observation Explain the Current Social Upheaval?0
- Culture
- January 19, 2017
The last couple of years have been marked by numerous outbreaks of violence, demands and protests, and in general, great social unrest and upheaval. For those who have watched life unravel around them, such unrest can be confusing, causing many to sit back and wonder why we continue to experience such troublesome explosions. There are
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British Study Explains What Public Schools Can Learn From Private Ones 0
- Education
- January 19, 2017
It’s always been considered important to train children in the hard, concrete, academic skills such as math, science, and reading. But in recent years, teaching “soft skills” – attitudes such as determination and persistence which affect a student’s future social promotion – has also become the domain of the school system. Recognizing this trend, researchers
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Would Bradley Manning’s Sentence Have Been Commuted?0
- Culture
- January 18, 2017
President Obama defied the advice of his secretary of defense on Tuesday, opting to commute the 35-year prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. Army soldier. Manning, once known as Bradley Manning, was convicted on 20 charges in 2013 after stealing hundreds of thousands of government files and selling them to WikiLeaks. One person
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Why Don’t We Call It Rape or Child Molestation When a Woman is the Perp?1