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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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  • Argument: The Christian God Doesn’t Seem Like Such a Good Father

    Argument: The Christian God Doesn’t Seem Like Such a Good Father0

    Is God a “good Father”? My answer: No. At least, not as many people conceive God. Consider two claims that I hear about God quite often:  Claim 1: God does not owe us anything.  Claim 2: All glory, honor, and praise must go to God alone.  It seems to me that when these claims appear alongside of

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  • Americans are Embracing Bad Government Because They Don’t Know History

    Americans are Embracing Bad Government Because They Don’t Know History0

    Recent news has proudly informed us that U.S. graduation rates are rising. Unfortunately, rising grad rates don’t tell the whole story. If one truly wants to know how American students are doing in school, a look at the Nation’s Report Card might offer a better picture. Those numbers tell us that not even half of

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  • Why We’re So Afraid

    Why We’re So Afraid0

    The title of a recent Rolling Stone article claims that “we’re living in the age of fear.” It explains: “If this election cycle is a mirror, then it is reflecting a society choked with fear. It’s not just threats of terrorism, economic collapse, cyberwarfare and government corruption—each of which some 70 percent of our citizenry

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