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How to Create Sibling (and Family) Relationships That Last6
- Family
- October 11, 2023
I’ve heard it said that the best gift you can give to your child is a sibling. After all, relationships between siblings are often the longest relationships in life, remaining long after the loss of parents and friends. Plus, the best sibling groups will not only be close during childhood, but they will also rely
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The Training Today’s Teachers Really Need1
- Education
- October 11, 2023
“If schools are going to be good, we need good teachers,” education researcher Michael McShane recently noted in a new study. That’s a no-brainer, right? Unfortunately, as McShane discovered, some of today’s teachers don’t believe they receive adequate preparation to teach in the classroom, particularly in the ever-expanding realm of alternative schools and education. As the
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The True Cost of the Antiracism Grift3
- Culture
- October 10, 2023
The more months that pass, the more that “antiracism”—the fashionable ideology that rose to prominence in the wake of the 2020 George Floyd protests—is being exposed as a grift. As highlighted last week at Intellectual Takeout, Boston University recently opened an inquiry into Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research, to uncover, among other enigmas,
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What ‘Dracula’ Teaches About Weak Men6
- Literature
- October 10, 2023
Bram Stoker’s Dracula again reminded me: Real men must give their blood. For most, Dracula is a novel about horror. And yes, there are horrifying elements in the book. After all, Dracula is a blood-sucking fiend who stalks his victims, instilling into them a paralyzing fear-like poison that condemns them to a fate worse than
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Trying to Keep Horrible Crimes in Perspective2
- Culture
- October 10, 2023
Stunned joy is what most of us felt when we learned that Charlotte Sena, the 9-year-old abducted while riding her bike in upstate New York, has been found and returned to her family — alive. The alleged perp has been seized, bringing the number of active Amber Alerts in the entire USA to… one: Keshawn
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Money Talks: The Agenda Behind the American Women Quarters Program2
Nina Otero-Warren. Anna May Wong. Edith Kanaka‘ole. Jovita Idar. Zitkala-Ša. Dr. Pauli Murray. Celia Cruz. Ask any American to identify these women—Murray was “perceived” as a woman—and unless that person majored in women’s studies, odds are high that few will recognize these names. Yet these are seven of the 15 names featured now on the
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Going Local With the Little Red Microschool1
- Education
- October 9, 2023
Have you ever heard someone use the phrase “Go Local”? The concept, which encourages supporting local industries and businesses, has grown in popularity over the years with people of all political persuasions. But oddly enough, there’s one area where “go local” has been roundly shunned over the years, and that is education. Oh, sure, people
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Publius Rutilius Rufus: Rome’s ‘Last Honest Man’2
- History
- October 6, 2023
Banished for debasing the currency from his home city in what is now north-central Turkey, Diogenes of Sinope chose to beg in the streets of Corinth and Athens, live in a clay jar, and eschew wealth of any kind. The story is often told that he walked the streets with a lantern, looking in vain for
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React19 Advocacy Group Helps V*x-Injured Who Government Failed1
React19, an advocacy group founded in November 2022 by several vax-injured people, is putting the government to shame in its efforts to help folks hurt by the COVID-19 vaccines. So far, the group has awarded grants for medical expenses to over 80 vax-injured people, by contrast to the federal government, which has compensated just four
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