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A young volunteer firefighter, Andrew Coates, recently made headlines when his application for a paid position doing the job he loves was rejected. The reason? He was homeschooled. According to the city’s human resources director, the high school diploma that the paid firefighter position required needed to be from an accredited high school. Because Coates’
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If you spent any time consuming news media these past few weeks, you’re aware of the AI fears flooding the world. Doom-laden predictions saturate the headlines, and each day another somewhat frazzled, pale-faced, bespectacled whistleblower emerges from a dark server room to prophesy the end. Panic over AI’s alleged world-ending capabilities has been smoldering under
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Nearly a year has passed since conservative journalist Helen Andrews’ essay “The Great Feminization” ignited a cultural firestorm. Her first paragraph ran as follows: In 2019, I read an article about Larry Summers and Harvard that changed the way I look at the world. The author, writing under the pseudonym ‘J. Stone,’ argued that the
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After the Lindsay Clancy trial ended in a mistrial, one female juror who voted “not guilty” embarked on a press tour. Her objective apparently was to cast herself as a feminist hero and the lone holdout juror as a strange, stubborn man. According to Juror Paula Devlin, the women on the jury saw the case
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Not a day goes by without seeing at least one person listening to music as they make their daily commute, eat lunch, or unwind. High schoolers wear their AirPods as they do homework in study hall; I love to bring my headphones when I go for a walk. In any public space, dozens if not
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I was online the other day when I stumbled upon a little maxim from “The New England Primer,” the first textbook used by thousands of children in the early days of the American colonies. The lines ran as follows: Have communion with few, Be intimate with one, Deal justly with all, Speak evil of none. That’s some
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