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Are We Less Free Than in Times Past?0
- September 28, 2015
No society is perfect. Yet, it is often assumed that American society is one of progress, and that, on the whole, we are better off than our ancestors. As evidence of this progress, people often point to the increase in life expectancy, educational opportunities, and career options. And, as one highly ranked Facebook comment on
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Hollywood Star Became Stay-at-Home Dad After Wife Died of Cancer 0
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- September 28, 2015
Actor Rick Moranis was a fixture in many movies I watched growing up – Ghostbusters, Spaceballs, Parenthood, Honey I Shrunk the Kids. And then, suddenly, he wasn’t in any more movies. I had never heard what happened to him until I came across this Mental Floss piece this past weekend. As it turns
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When Poets Were Rock Stars 0
- September 26, 2015
Today we’re accustomed to crowds of 14,000 gathering for a concert or a sporting event. Not for a poet reading a lecture on literary criticism. But that indeed is what happened on April 30, 1956, when T.S. Eliot came to the University of Minnesota. He delivered his lecture “The Frontiers of Criticism” to
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Harvard Prof Says U.S. and China Could be at War in the Next Decade 0
- September 25, 2015
It’s a question many of us have wondered about, but few have given sustained attention: will the U.S. eventually find itself at war with China? In a fascinating article for The Atlantic, Harvard professor Graham Allison argues that the “Thucydides Trap” makes such a conflict more likely than not in the near future.
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Should Couples Have More Children?0
- September 25, 2015
A newly released study entitled the “World Family Map 2015” presents a number of interesting facts on the state of the family worldwide. One of these facts focuses on the average number of children per family in various countries. What’s interesting is how many developed nations barely have enough children to replace their current population,
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6 Problematic Quotes from the Founder of America’s Education System 1
- September 25, 2015
Horace Mann is known as the “father of American public education.” Motivated by a desire to both further the moral improvement of mankind and preserve the American republic, Mann led the Common School Movement that eventually resulted in the public education system America knows today. As children bear the marks of their parents, so America’s
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