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The Last Hurrah of Old, White America?0
- Culture
- November 8, 2016
I’ve been told that once an approaching tsunami is sensed, many animals move inland to escape destruction. Maybe it’s true, maybe it’s not. What is true is that old, white America – the America that remembers apple pie and Jesus Christ – senses its impending, cultural doom. In this line of work, I have
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Carl Schmitt: The Philosopher of Conflict 0
- Education
- November 7, 2016
Now to Heidegger’s friend and colleague Carl Schmitt, who had also attacked liberalism incessantly before the Nazi period, enthusiastically served the Nazi state, and then brooded after the defeat and spent decades developing and promulgating anti-libertarian thinking across the political spectrum. Carl Schmitt was a German legal theorist whose book, The Concept of the Political, came to
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Daylight Savings Time Isn’t Worth the Trouble it Causes 0
- Economics
- November 7, 2016
Today the sun is shining during my commute home from work. But this weekend, public service announcements will remind us to “fall back,” ending daylight saving time (DST) by setting our clocks an hour earlier on Sunday, Nov. 6. On Nov. 7, many of us will commute home in the dark. This semiannual ritual shifts
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John Dewey and the Progressive Case for Homeschooling 1
- Education
- November 7, 2016
The philosopher and public intellectual John Dewey (1859-1952) is widely known among progressive K-12 educators, education policy gurus, and university education faculty for such groundbreaking ideas as learning-by-doing, inquiry-driven curricula and the democratic classroom. If you want to upset these Dewey fanboys and girls, tell them that John Dewey was an apologist for homeschooling. In
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Seeing the Lamp by the Light of the Tree 0
- Culture
- November 7, 2016
Yesterday evening, on my way home from the gym, I found myself waiting at a stoplight. Not being one who feels the urgency to check for text messages at every available moment, I ignored the handheld device which, in any event, I hadn’t bothered to bring with me, and looked about me. At such moments,
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Can You Name America’s First Presidents?0
- Culture
- November 7, 2016
It was recently reported that many college students don’t know that Thomas Jefferson was once the president. That thought is particularly alarming when we consider that those same students will likely be choosing the nation’s forty-fifth president in tomorrow’s election. One has to wonder how many other voters are in the same boat when it
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