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The Greatest Generation? What Malarkey!0
- Culture
- October 25, 2016
With due allegiance to persons and places, it is only right that we should love and respect our parents and grandparents. But we can do this without canonising the World War Two generation as the greatest, a piece of excessive sentimentality and sloppy thinking if ever there was one. The phrase was coined by the
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Can We Restore Dignity to Our Degraded Times?0
- Culture
- October 24, 2016
The message is loud and clear. Your actions have no more significance than those of a cockroach. Furthermore, like a cockroach, you are in no position to make moral choices of your own free will. When you commit some hideous brutality, it is not that you decided to do so. No, on the contrary, external
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David McCullough on What’s Wrong with History Education Today 3
- Education
- October 24, 2016
Some of you have read historian David McCullough’s books, which include 1776, John Adams, and Truman. At the very least, you’ve seen his books on the shelves at Barnes & Noble. In an interview conducted by the Wall Street Journal in 2011, McCullough had some very interesting critiques of modern history education, which I share below.
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In Defense of Chores 0
- Culture
- October 24, 2016
While scrolling down my timeline I saw this, an article that describes pictures of a six-year-old boy doing chores—cooking, cleaning, you know, normal stuff. But this particular album went viral because the mother created it to teach the young boy a lesson, namely, that chores are “not just for women.” Yes, I know, this heavy-handed
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‘Boys Are Stupid; Girls Are Awesome’ – Most TV Shows & Movies Today 0
- Culture
- October 24, 2016
Most kids’ shows today are pretty much twaddle. However, in moments of exhaustion and weakness, I let my boys watch the occasional age-appropriate movie or TV show. But I usually find myself having some ‘splainin to do with them afterwards. That’s because, more often than not, they have just watched something in which the female
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Christianity Needs to Clean Up its Own House 0
- Culture
- October 24, 2016
Comments that one reads or hears from many Christians often revolve around the term “truth”. The “truth” is generally presented as synonymous with Christianity and is used as a way to push back against modern relativism. But what is forgotten is the inherent relativism of modern Christianity. According to Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, there are now
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