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What Parents Can Learn From this 4-Year-Old Reading Prodigy 0
- Education
- January 13, 2017
As The Washington Post reported, the Library of Congress had a special visitor Wednesday: 4-year-old Daliyah Arana. But Daliyah wasn’t visiting the library as just any old tourist. She was visiting as the “librarian of the day.” According to the WaPo, Daliyah attained this special status for her stellar reading ability. Even though she has
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The One Thing Even High-Quality Childcare Can’t Offer 0
- Culture
- January 13, 2017
There’s a lot of discussion these days about the high cost of raising a child and caring for him. In fact, just this week, the USDA rolled out its numbers on the cost of raising a child. Warning: It’s not very pretty: “[F]or a child born in 2015, a middle-income married-couple family will spend between
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The Myth of Romantic Love May be Ruining Your Health 0
- Culture
- January 13, 2017
Romantic love in Western societies is often portrayed in a stereotypical way: two yearning halves, who search for each other to find their complete, original state. Few find this bliss because it’s a myth, dating back to Plato. In Greek mythology, the perfect lovers were joined together and sliced in two. Love, then, is the
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The Intellectual Roots of Martin Luther King Jr.0
- Culture
- January 13, 2017
It’s typical of the progressive cast of our culture to focus on the forward-looking at the expense of the traditional—or if you prefer, to miss the traditional elements that lie at the heart of a genuinely progressive movement. So it is that in celebrating the accomplishments of Martin Luther King, Jr., his connection to the
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Populism Has Finally Beat Progressivism 0
- History
- January 13, 2017
With a Trump presidency at hand an inescapable historical irony deserves to be noted. If there was a time in our history—and there was—when progressivism bested populism, this is a moment when populism has returned the favor. To be sure, the populism of today is not exactly the same version of populism that the progressives
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Penn State Offers Free Psych Counseling as Trump Inauguration Nears 0
- Culture
- January 13, 2017
Safe spaces, trigger warnings, participation awards and now pre-presidential inauguration coddling. The Daily Collegian reports that Pennsylvania State University is offering students free psychological and counseling services “in this time of transition.” Yes, you heard it right, folks: Penn State is launching a special campaign to help millennial students cope with the stress, anxiety and
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No, Not Everyone Is Entitled to Their Opinion 2
- Education
- January 13, 2017
It’s commonly believed today that “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.” What nonsense. Where does this “entitlement” regarding opinions come from? Who has bestowed it? The statement is a decidedly modern one. No person until very recently in history would have dreamed of saying something so silly. It’s usually attributed to the American financier
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MLK’s Nobel Peace Prize Speech 0
- Education
- January 13, 2017
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s relentless commitment to peace resulted in an extraordinary honor. On Oct. 14, 1964 the Georgia-born minister became the youngest person to ever win the award, which he received for his nonviolent resistance to racial oppression. Two months later, King, who donated the $54,123 Nobel Prize money to the civil rights
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Millennials Who Borrowed Money to Get a Degree Got Destroyed (See Chart)0
- Culture
- January 13, 2017
If there’s one generation that has become the scapegoat for the nation’s problems, it’s the millennials. They don’t get married and start families. They live in mom’s basement and don’t buy their own house. They drift from job to job and school to school trying to find their “passion.” In short, they can’t “adult.” But
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