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  • Why Professors Are Writing Crap That Nobody Reads

    Why Professors Are Writing Crap That Nobody Reads24

    Professors usually spend about 3-6 months (sometimes longer) researching and writing a 25-page article to submit to an academic journal. And most experience a twinge of excitement when, months later, they open a letter informing them that their article has been accepted for publication, and will therefore be read by… … an average of ten

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  • Why Most People Today Are Acting Rather Than Thinking

    Why Most People Today Are Acting Rather Than Thinking0

    If you were one of those people who patiently suffered watched the 2016 presidential debates, you probably noticed that both candidates are ready to take action and implement big plans. Build a wall. Provide free college for everyone. And on it goes. But when each of the candidates is given more time to talk about

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  • The Best Way to Teach Kids to Hate History? Rely Only on Textbooks

    The Best Way to Teach Kids to Hate History? Rely Only on Textbooks0

    Whenever I hear that only 12 percent of American students are proficient in history, I have to shake my head in amazement. How in the world can so few students be proficient in a subject that’s so fascinating? Historian David McCullough may have an answer to that question. Several years ago he noted that contemporary

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  • A Culturally Literate Person Knows the Bible

    A Culturally Literate Person Knows the Bible2

    While visiting friends this summer, I had the opportunity to spend some time at the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina. As the largest home in the United States, Biltmore is a time capsule of valuable treasures spanning everything from Napoleon’s chess set to tapestries from sixteenth-century Belgium. It was while viewing one of these tapestries

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  • ‘Sweet Land of Liberty’: Colin Kaepernick and Freedom of Speech

    ‘Sweet Land of Liberty’: Colin Kaepernick and Freedom of Speech0

    Every week for two months, quarterback Colin Kaepernick of the American professional football team the San Francisco 49ers has refused to stand during the playing of his country’s national anthem.  He has instead knelt down as his protest of alleged systematic racism in American society and in solidarity with the powerful Black Live Matters movement. 

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  • The Real Problem with American Education?

    The Real Problem with American Education?1

    • October 25, 2016

    Since its beginnings, America has directed most of its educational energies toward creating average students. Already in 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville observed in his classic Democracy in America, “I do not believe that there is a country in the world where, in proportion to the population, there are so few uninstructed and at the same time

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  • The Greatest Generation? What Malarkey!

    The Greatest Generation? What Malarkey!0

    With due allegiance to persons and places, it is only right that we should love and respect our parents and grandparents. But we can do this without canonising the World War Two generation as the greatest, a piece of excessive sentimentality and sloppy thinking if ever there was one. The phrase was coined by the

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  • The ‘Feel Good’ Approach is Not Working for Churches

    The ‘Feel Good’ Approach is Not Working for Churches0

    Late last week, I ran across an intriguing article on the state of the Church of England in The Telegraph. According to the paper: “Churches with small and declining congregations may no longer have to hold weekly Sunday services as the Church of England considers dropping the legal requirement. A Church of England task group

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  • Lost in translation: five common English phrases you may be using incorrectly

    Lost in translation: five common English phrases you may be using incorrectly0

    English is a language rich with imagery, meaning and metaphor – and when we want to express ourselves we can draw upon a canon replete with beautifully turned phrases, drawing from the language’s Latin, French and Germanic roots, through Chaucer and Shakespeare right up to myriad modern wordsmiths – not to mention those apt aphorisms

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