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Chesterton’s Take on Oscar Wilde 0
- Literature
- May 20, 2016
Oscar Wilde’s literally genius can be found in many literary styles, but it was his use of paradox that truly set him apart from all others. The possible exception to this, of course, was a contemporary of Wilde’s: G.K. Chesterton. In many ways—politics, temperament, religion, and taste in art—the two men could not have been
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Positive Psychology and a Gospel of Happiness 0
- Science
- May 20, 2016
“What is real happiness? How can I experience it? How can I live it?” As Christopher Kaczor notes in the Introduction to The Gospel of Happiness, these are questions that every thoughtful person asks. Where, however, might a thoughtful person go for help in answering these questions? Thoughtful Christians, of course, go to the Bible, the
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The Decay of our Language is Happening 0
- Culture
- May 20, 2016
“Political chaos is connected with the decay of language.” -George Orwell In an article entitled “Valuing Vocabulary,” published Friday (May 20), Cherie Harder, President of the Trinity Forum, connects the state of modern politics, especially the current presidential election campaign, with lessons to be learned from George Orwell’s novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. In Orwell’s
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Junk Science: When Buried Research Kills People 0
- Education
- May 20, 2016
The New York Times last month reported on a study completed in 1973, the results of which had gone unpublished until recently. The story, headlined “A Study on Fats That Doesn’t Fit the Story Line,” explored a five-year double blind randomized controlled trial–the best method to determine if one thing causes another, according to Times reporter Aaron
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Do Children Learn to Read Better From Their Parents?0
- Education
- May 20, 2016
While paging through The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading, I came across a fascinating little story from author Jessie Wise’s personal experience: “I was adopted by an elderly couple who had been educated in an isolated, rural one-room schoolhouse. By her eighth and final year of school, Meme had studied algebra, Latin, and the
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The Zero-Tolerance Police Nab 5-Year-Old Girl 0
- Culture
- May 19, 2016
Chalk up another brilliant school suspension to the zero-tolerance police. The perpetrator this time? A 5-year-old with a *gasp* plastic bubble gun. A local news station reports: “The girl’s mother, who goes by Emma, said she was shocked when she got a call from the school telling her she needed to pick up her daughter and
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