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How Orwell Foresaw the Disintegration of Our Language 0
- Culture
- June 1, 2017
“In our time it is broadly true that political writing is bad writing.” This is the takeaway quote from George Orwell’s essay “Politics and the English Language,” which has become popular as a guide for writers throughout the English-speaking world. In the essay Orwell advocates a plainspoken, straightforward and no-nonsense writing style. He heaps scorn
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Why C.S. Lewis Hated Vocational Education 1
- Education
- June 1, 2017
Interest in apprenticeship and vocational education has certainly been on the rise lately. Perhaps the most surprising thing is that support for it spans the political spectrum – everyone from President Trump to U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar sees the value of encouraging more vocational education. In light of this surging support, I found it interesting
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Five Big Differences between Work and School 0
- Culture
- June 1, 2017
13 Reasons Why is a grueling emotional drama of how high school student Hannah Baker ends up taking her own life. The social scene at her school inflicts worsening wounds and ever-deepening pain. The school itself becomes associated with the torment of her heart and soul, as her peers drive her ever further into the
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This Farmer Won’t Host Same-Sex Weddings at His Orchard. Now a City Has Banned Him From Its Farmers Market.0
- Culture
- June 1, 2017
A farmers market and Facebook posts have opened a new front in courtroom battles over religious freedom. It started when Steve Tennes, who owns a 120-acre farm in Charlotte, Michigan, expressed his traditional view about marriage on the farm’s Facebook page. This drew a warning from an official more than 20 miles away in East
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‘The Penis as Social Construct’—Spoof Article Gets Published by Academic Journal 0
- Education
- June 1, 2017
Several years ago, Alan Sokal, a professor of physics at New York University and University College in London, decided to demonstrate exactly how nonsensical postmodernist cultural studies had become. To do this, he submitted an article to the postmodernist journal Social Text claiming to demonstrate that quantum gravity is a social and linguistic construct—in other
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NAACP Leader: Lenient Discipline is Hurting Black Students 0
- Culture
- June 1, 2017
In recent years, there’s been a trend to reduce school suspensions of minority students, particularly those of African-American descent. According to Pacific Education Group, a consulting firm hired by many schools across the country, many of the discipline problems which result in suspensions are the fault of teachers who exhibit their “white privilege” in the
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