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Bringing the Fun Home: Five Family Outings for Tight Budgets 5
- Family, Culture, Entertainment
- August 18, 2022
In 1987, a beaming New York Giants quarterback was the first person publicly asked what soon became a well-known question: “Phil Simms, you’ve just won the Super Bowl! What are you doing next?” “I’m gonna go to Disney World!” Simms said. Many average Americans couldn’t give Simms’s answer today. The reason isn’t Disney’s “woke” policies,
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Learning Styles Don’t Actually Exist, Studies Show 2
- Education, Science
- August 18, 2022
Are you a visual, auditory, reading/writing, or kinesthetic learner? For millions of students, this question has become so familiar that they already have an answer ready to go. Some identify as visual learners, which means that, in theory, they learn best by seeing concepts in pictures and diagrams, perhaps on a blackboard or in a
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The Counter-Repudiation That’s on the Way 8
- Culture, Politics, Western Civilization
- August 17, 2022
Philosopher, writer, and teacher Roger Scruton labeled our age “the culture of repudiation” in his 1998 book An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Modern Culture. Though I am oversimplifying here, his basic premise was that academics and other influential writers and thinkers had given up defending, much less advancing, Western thought and culture. Many, in fact,
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Beware of Big Bathroom Brother 2
- Education, Culture, Politics
- August 17, 2022
Nine years ago, I warned readers about “eyelock biometric readers” adopted by Florida schools to track them on buses. Under the guise of fighting guns and vaping, countless schools this year are now installing surveillance sensors in bathrooms that can spy and record students’ alleged “aggression” and red-flag “spoken key words.” Eight years ago, I
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Woke Silliness at Its Worst: A Non-binary Joan of Arc 1
- Culture, Entertainment, History, International, Literature
- August 17, 2022
A new play about Joan of Arc, I, Joan, opens in London next week. After all the plays, poetry, novels, and biographies published since she was burned at the stake in 1431, it’s difficult to imagine that anything fresh can be said about the Maid of Orleans, However, the Globe Theatre, a successor to Shakespeare’s theatre,
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Southern-Fried Hebrew: Surprises and Lessons From a DNA Test 2
- Family, Culture, Religion
- August 16, 2022
My name is Dr. Bob Dunn, and I come from Atlanta, the land of Chick-Fil-a, Coca Cola, and Braves baseball. I grew up in an evangelical Christian home and my family was from traditional British Isle stock and had been in the South since before America’s Founding. Or so I thought. One day my wife
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