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  • Teacher: Stop Being Your Child’s Friend

    Teacher: Stop Being Your Child’s Friend0

    I was at a public park this weekend when I noticed a family preparing for a photo shoot. This family caught the attention of everyone else in the park as well, namely because of the screams emanating from one of its younger members. The screams continued for the next quarter of an hour and it

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  • Leading Scientific Journal: Don’t Sacrifice the Liberal Arts to STEM

    Leading Scientific Journal: Don’t Sacrifice the Liberal Arts to STEM0

    There’s been a lot of rhetoric in recent years from conservative leaders about the importance of giving students a STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). That our students should have a better education in math and science is not controversial. What is controversial is when a math and science emphasis is pitted against the

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  • In Defense of Potty-Mouthed Millennials

    In Defense of Potty-Mouthed Millennials0

    Newly published research revealed that millennials, particularly young women, like to swear at work. A lot.  Via Bloomberg: It’s normal for millennials to say “s—” and “f—” at work, and new research finds that younger women are among the most likely demographic to drop the f-bomb in the office. About three-quarters of female millennial managers

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  • Did LBJ Say, ‘I’ll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for 200 years’?

    Did LBJ Say, ‘I’ll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for 200 years’?14

    For reasons that are obvious, at a recent editorial meeting topic of conversation swung toward some of the most shocking things ever said by U.S. presidents. Of course Lyndon Baines Johnson’s name quickly popped up. LBJ, a beer-swilling, blunt-speaking Texan, didn’t shy from using what today we refer to as The N Word. One sentence

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  • Claim: Evolution Can’t Account for Man’s Speech

    Claim: Evolution Can’t Account for Man’s Speech0

    Thank God for Tom Wolfe.  He’s been coming forth with the right sort of right stuff for better than a half century, and he’s still at it. Or maybe it should be “chundering” forth. The verb of choice is Wolfe’s, who has allegedly scholarly papers chundering forth all over the place in this short book.

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  • Are We Boring Students to Death?

    Are We Boring Students to Death?0

    I had an interesting conversation with a 12-year-old young man the other day. When I asked him about school, he explained how he never learned anything and had decided that it wasn’t worth it to even try anymore. Instead, he was becoming one of the “bad kids” and making life miserable for his teachers. But

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  • A Desire to Fit In is the Root of Almost All Wrongdoing

    A Desire to Fit In is the Root of Almost All Wrongdoing0

    Imagine that one morning you discover a ring that grants you magic powers. With this ring on your finger, you can seize the presidency, rob Fort Knox and instantly become the most famous person on the planet. So, would you do it? Readers of Plato’s Republic will find this thought experiment familiar. For Plato, one

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  • Why Lepanto Still Matters

    Why Lepanto Still Matters1

    In Iran this week, a young woman named Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee was sentenced to five years in prison. Her crime? She had “insulted Islamic sanctities.” Iranian authorities had ransacked her home, and inside they discovered an unpublished fictional story that apparently frowned on the ancient practice of stoning people to death. It appears Iraee will

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  • The Crazy Story of How Vladimir Putin Joined the KGB

    The Crazy Story of How Vladimir Putin Joined the KGB0

    It’s safe to say that Vladimir Putin is one of the most enigmatic (some would say ruthless) figures in the world today. Putin became acting president of Russia in 1999 following the abrupt resignation of Boris Yeltsin. Today Putin is in his third term as president – despite the fact that Russia’s constitution once limited

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