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How Our Culture Came to Scorn Physical Work 0
- Culture
- August 10, 2017
As economic prosperity continues to spread, and as the American economy completes its transition into the age of information, manual labor is increasingly cast down in the popular imagination. When our youth navigate and graduate from high school, they receive a range of pressures to attend four-year colleges and pursue various “white-collar” careers, whether in
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Political Incorrectness is Treated More Harshly Than Actual Hate Speech. Why?0
- Culture
- August 10, 2017
On June 18, four days after James T. Hodgkinson opened fire on a group of Republican congressman at a baseball field in Alexandria, Va., Professor Johnny Eric Williams of Trinity College (CT) posted the following message on his Facebook page: “It is past time for the racially oppressed to do what people who believe themselves
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Classical High School Students Say This Attribute Defines the West 0
- Culture
- August 10, 2017
Josh Herring teaches history at a secular, classical academy – but as with all teachers, sometimes he learns valuable lessons from his students. As high school students at the Thales Academy progress from studying ancient cultures to modernity, they invariably tell him they are struck by one principle that sets the Judeo-Christian West apart from previous civilizations.
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Does This Viral Request for a Bride Reveal What Men Want in a Wife?0
- Culture
- August 10, 2017
Every once in a while, an individual will pop up with a clever joke or parody that gives a viral chuckle and reassures us that humor is not, in fact, as dead as we’ve presumed. An example of this recently appeared in Scotland’s agricultural want ads. As the Daily Record explains, a 37-year-old farmer by
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Indoctrination in American Schools: How bad is it?0
- Culture
- August 10, 2017
(The above image is that of a jacket worn by a teacher in a West Virginia public school.) The father of America’s public education system, Horace Mann, famously quipped: “Men are cast-iron, but children are wax.“ Mann knew that education was never a “value-neutral” proposition. It has always been and always will be a process
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Majority of Google Employees Say Firing of Memo Author Was Wrong 0
- Culture
- August 10, 2017
Google’s firing of engineer James Damore continues to garner national attention. The tech giant fired Damore earlier this week after his 10-page memo, titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” ignited a storm of criticism—even though numerous scientists said Damore’s findings, which suggested biological differences between men and women might be one reason women are underrepresented in
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