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    • Should the Education System Embrace ‘Subsidiarity’?

      Should the Education System Embrace ‘Subsidiarity’?0

      Reports of failure in public schools tend to be systemic. Stories of success tend to be localized. Is this a reason to promote subsidiarity in the public school system? Subsidiarity is a principle that calls for decision-making power and responsibility to be held at the lowest level as much as possible. Applied to schools, this

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    • What is a friend?

      What is a friend?0

      A recently released study by Oxford University claims to be “the first real attempt to test whether online social media do allow us to increase the size of our social networks.” The conclusions of the study? Your Facebook friends aren’t your friends – except for, maybe, four of them. “…there is a cognitive constraint on

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    • 6 Thoughts from Famous Americans on Love and Marriage

      6 Thoughts from Famous Americans on Love and Marriage0

      Getting tired of the sappy, sweet nothings which permeate our culture in the days leading up to Valentine’s Day? If so, check out the following statements made by famous historical Americans. They’re guaranteed to shock and provoke thought on the true value, meaning, and purpose of love and marriage. “It has ever been a maxim

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    • Why It’s Good to Mark Up Books

      Why It’s Good to Mark Up Books0

      (Image: Jack Kerouac’s copy of Dostoevsky’s An Unpleasant Predicament) I truly appreciate the existence of libraries, which provide many people access to books that their budgets would not allow them to purchase. But the thing is, I rarely check out books from them. The reason why? I love to mark up books. Since high school—thanks to

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    • Is Respect for Good Women Disappearing?

      Is Respect for Good Women Disappearing?0

      I picked up Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park for the first time last month, and since finishing it, I’ve had a nagging thought at the back of my mind concerning male-female relationships. But a little background before I mention that nagging thought. For those unfamiliar with Mansfield Park, one of the main plot threads finds Henry

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    • Proposal Advocates Raising the Gun Age to 25

      Proposal Advocates Raising the Gun Age to 250

      The anguish caused by gun violence in America and the frustrations of the debate about it are enough to make a president weep. Between a passionately defended “right to bear arms” and the demand for “gun control” there seems to be no accommodation. Yet perhaps there is. Following President Obama’s tearful New Year resolution to

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