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    • Could the Olympics Die With the Baby Boomers?

      Could the Olympics Die With the Baby Boomers?4

      The pageantry of the Olympic Games are diverting attention from a question which must keep members of the International Olympic Committee awake at night: will the modern Games survive? “If we don’t get young people playing sport, we won’t be here for very much longer,” IOC spokesperson Mark Adams said at a press conference last week. “We have

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    • Adam Smith Thought This Was His Most Important Book

      Adam Smith Thought This Was His Most Important Book3

      Adam Smith is best known for writing The Wealth of Nations, but in a way, his work in economics took a back seat to his moral philosophy. In fact, Smith thought that his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, was more important than his economic theory. It’s in this book, for example, that Smith

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    • What Johnny Cash’s ‘Hurt’ Teaches Us About Aging and Fame

      What Johnny Cash’s ‘Hurt’ Teaches Us About Aging and Fame5

      In the 1980s, Johnny Cash, the former king of country, was increasingly marginalized and forgotten. After a series of failed albums, Columbia, his label of 25 years, dropped him. But his career was not quite over. Producer Rick Rubin saw Cash perform alongside Bob Dylan at Madison Square Garden in 1992 and recognized that “the

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    • Do Evangelicals Care More About Trump Than Jesus?

      Do Evangelicals Care More About Trump Than Jesus?10

      Are Christians united more by politics than Jesus? In a recent Washington Post opinion article, author Shadi Hamid argues that a peculiar partnership has emerged between politics and religion: Those who profess to be Evangelicals largely support former President Donald Trump. In the article, Hamid asks, “How can people who prize moral rectitude and personal

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    • Social-Emotional Learning Is Hurting Students

      Social-Emotional Learning Is Hurting Students1

      Social-emotional learning (SEL) has been in vogue in education circles for decades. Following its precepts, teachers, counselors, and administrators encourage students to look inward and focus on their feelings. The result? A generation of young people who can’t stop thinking about their emotions, leaving them incredibly fragile. But that’s not what many of the experts

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    • The Forgotten Father of Modern Fantasy Literature

      The Forgotten Father of Modern Fantasy Literature5

      George MacDonald had a colossal impact on some of the most brilliant early-20th-century writers, including C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, and J.R.R. Tolkien. He was a Scottish minister, poet, and fairytale writer, but today, much of his work has been abandoned. It’s time to shake the dust from MacDonald’s magical and redemptive works, many of which

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