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Can Americans Be Friends Again?0
- Culture
- December 3, 2018
George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st President of the United States, was a man remarkable for civility, that precious but vanishing virtue in public life. He left a note for his successor, Bill Clinton, in the Oval Office on the day of the inauguration. “Dear Bill,” it read, “I wish you great happiness here. I never felt
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Why Democratic Socialists Could Never Produce the Instant Pot 0
- Economics
- December 3, 2018
Like millions of Americans, newly elected New York democratic socialist congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez loves the Instant Pot multicooker. She has been having Instagram Live conversations about politics while she cooks with her Instant Pot. In November, Ocasio-Cortez asked her 1.2 million Twitter followers to post their favorite Instant Pot recipes. Perhaps she should ask her Twitter followers to explain
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When It Comes to Children’s Books, It’s Time to Put the Propaganda Away 0
- Culture
- December 3, 2018
While many of America’s parents are worried about how well their children can read and do math, as well how much they know, the helpful people at Lifehacker are concerned about what we should to do teach social justice. They have recommended a list of books to ensure that our children are thinking correctly–not,
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The Easiest Holiday Gift that Everyone Really Wants 0
- Culture
- December 3, 2018
For twenty years, I offered seminars in Latin, history, and literature to home-educated students. When the Christmas season rolled around, I brought paper, envelopes, and stamps to class, and asked students to write a letter of gratitude to someone who had positively influenced their lives. Some wrote to their parents, some to relatives, others to
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An Acute Outbreak of Moralitis 0
- Culture
- December 3, 2018
The ‘silly season’, they call it – when Parliament has closed for the summer holidays, and the newspapers scramble for titbits. Last week the media pounced on a commentary by the recently-resigned Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, the flaxen-haired politician pretending to be an essayist (or is it the other way round?). Don’t ban the burqa, Boris
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Harvard Study Shows the Dangers of Early School Enrollment 0
- Education
- November 30, 2018
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