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  • We the People Don’t Need a President’s Plan

    We the People Don’t Need a President’s Plan0

    Hillary Clinton has a “plan.” I live in a “battleground state” so Clinton shared her plan with me in commercials, over and over and over again, through Saturday afternoon college football. Clinton’s plan is to spend more taxpayer money. Her spending initiatives include free college tuition for students in families making under $125,000 a year,

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  • Should Life Be Happy or Meaningful?

    Should Life Be Happy or Meaningful?0

    It’s the never-ending question – even if it is rather a subconscious one. What makes for a good life? We all strive for happiness, but does that do the trick? According to this article from Time, the type of life we are after is one that is meaningful, not happy. Does that indicate that people

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  • Maybe Liberals Are Just Better Utilitarians

    Maybe Liberals Are Just Better Utilitarians0

    We keep hearing that conservatism in America is in crisis, that its messages don’t resonate, that it continues to lose political ground. These woes are typically ascribed the conservative movement’s lack of a dominant narrative. But I actually think conservatism does have a dominant narrative. In fact, it’s the same dominant narrative of liberalism. The

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  • C.S. Lewis: 3 Reasons Why Students Should Read Old Books

    C.S. Lewis: 3 Reasons Why Students Should Read Old Books1

    In the last couple years, I’ve written a handful of posts on how the school reading lists of today compare with those of a hundred years ago. While there are often many differences between current and past reading lists, one of the most glaring is that modern lists are heavily weighted with recently written titles.

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  • ‘Unhappily Unmarrieds’ – Are There More Than We Realize?

    ‘Unhappily Unmarrieds’ – Are There More Than We Realize?0

    We often hear today how many young people are happy with their single status. They’re enjoying traveling, pouring themselves into their graduate degree or new job, and living life with a partner that they may or may not get married to. From all their talk, life is good. In fact, someone who says the opposite

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  • Without Self-Education, the West Will Probably Die

    Without Self-Education, the West Will Probably Die0

    In one of my favorite scenes from the movie Seven, Morgan Freeman’s character gets a guard to let him into a library late at night so he can conduct research. While the five members of the library’s night staff are sitting around a desk playing cards he says to them: “Gentlemen, gentlemen… I’ll never understand.

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  • Why Young Adults Can’t Get Off ADHD Drugs

    Why Young Adults Can’t Get Off ADHD Drugs2

    “Millennials are so hard to work with.” That statement was recently made by an older relative of mine, and while I myself can be classified as a millennial, I have to admit that such a characterization is probably all too true of my generation. But as a recent article from Quartz explains, the millennial generation

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  • Should I Grade-skip My Gifted Child?

    Should I Grade-skip My Gifted Child?0

    The American school system puts students in grades based on age. However, for a large number of students, being with same-age peers in the classroom does not work. A recent report from Johns Hopkins University shows that about two out of every seven children are ready for a higher-grade curriculum. These children are not learning

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  • Manners, Like Markets, Are Beautiful

    Manners, Like Markets, Are Beautiful0

    There was a strange moment in the second debate when a question was posed to both candidates. Donald Trump deferred to Hillary Clinton for the answer because, he said, “I am a gentlemen.” Sure, he might have spoken ironically or even facetiously (really Donald?), but most people had a vague sense of what he meant.

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