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  • Why It’s Good For Children to Work Alongside Their Parents

    Why It’s Good For Children to Work Alongside Their Parents0

    I ran across a short video from The Perennial Plate the other day which gave me pause. The video featured a woman named Ana Navarro who operates a ranch in Colorado with the help of her children. As the video shows and Navarro attests, the family does not have a lot of material wealth. Yet

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  • What Most People Don’t Understand About Love

    What Most People Don’t Understand About Love0

    All the problems of the world could be solved if we simply remember that all we need is love. Love! Love is all we need. Is it as simple as John Lennon suggests in his iconic Beatles anthem? The answer is yes. Emphatically, yes! The problem is not with the truth of the mantra but

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  • Univ. of Chicago Faculty Strike Back, Defend ‘Safe Spaces’

    Univ. of Chicago Faculty Strike Back, Defend ‘Safe Spaces’0

    • September 15, 2016

    In August, Intellectual Takeout obtained and published a letter University of Chicago Dean of Students John Jay Ellison sent to students explaining the university’s commitment to intellectual l freedom and inquiry. The letter, which told students not to expect safe spaces and trigger warnings, quickly went viral. This week, several University of Chicago faculty struck

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  • Psychologist: College Students Today ‘Less Resilient’

    Psychologist: College Students Today ‘Less Resilient’0

    “If you can keep your head when all about you   Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,   But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,   Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being

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  • Only 1 in 4 Can Name All Three Branches of U.S. Government

    Only 1 in 4 Can Name All Three Branches of U.S. Government0

    September 17th marks the 229th birthday of the U.S. Constitution. In honor of the day, The Annenberg Public Policy Center conducted a survey to test the public’s knowledge of basic civics. One of the questions asked respondents to name the three branches of government. The number of Americans able to do so has dropped dramatically

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  • Harvard Prof: U.S. Productivity ‘Shutting Down’

    Harvard Prof: U.S. Productivity ‘Shutting Down’0

    Harvard Business School released a report this month and the findings are, well, not good. Here is the gist of the report, titled “Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided“: While a slow recovery is underway, fundamentally weak U.S. economic performance continues and is leaving many Americans behind. The federal government has made no meaningful progress

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  • Thomas Jefferson’s 10 Simple Rules for Successful Living

    Thomas Jefferson’s 10 Simple Rules for Successful Living0

    With graduation season on our doorstep, many of us will soon find ourselves poking around in the greeting card section in search of the perfect message to give the bright-eyed students in our lives. But instead of picking out one of the normal platitudes which usually grace graduation cards – i.e. “follow your heart,” “reach

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  • There is No Neutral Parenting

    There is No Neutral Parenting0

    • September 14, 2016

    Occasionally, you’ll see and hear comments about parents indoctrinating their children or imposing their “values” upon them. The reality is that there is no neutral parenting. Children are brought into a culture and home that they do not choose. They are taught a language that is not of their choice. They are at the mercy

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  • The Nude Female Form is Powerful, but is it really ‘Empowering’?

    The Nude Female Form is Powerful, but is it really ‘Empowering’?0

    Can the naked female body ever be free? Is stripping off the ultimate expression of a woman’s emancipation? Or is her bared body always subject to sexual objectification? In a foreword to The Female Eunuch (1970), Germaine Greer imagined a feminism that would win women the ‘freedom to run, shout, talk loudly and sit with

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