Culture

Five Things Harvard’s Critique of Homeschooling Gets Wrong 0
- Culture
- April 20, 2020
Author’s Note: This is a copy of my submitted Letter to the Editor of Harvard Magazine regarding its recent article,“The Risks of Homeschooling.” Dear Editor: As a Harvard alum, longtime donor, education researcher, and homeschooling mother of four children in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I was shocked to read the article, “The Risks of Homeschooling,” by Erin
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China Increasingly Controls Information as It Slides Deeper Into Authoritarianism 0
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- April 20, 2020
Recent revelations about the depth and consequences of China’s suppression of information in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic should shine a light on the nature of the country’s regime. China’s communist government has been tyrannical for more than 70 years, but perhaps surprising to some, it actually has become more authoritarian in recent
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AOC’s Baseless Accusation That the U.S. Is a ‘Brutal, Barbarian Society’0
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- April 17, 2020
According to democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the COVID-19 pandemic is proving that the United States “is a brutal, barbarian society for the vast majority of working-class Americans.” As evidence of this, she claims that “40% of us couldn’t even afford a $400 emergency” before this crisis, and COVID-19 “is more than a $400 emergency.” However,
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A Depression-Era Rebuke for Social Justice Warriors 0
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- April 17, 2020
At present, the previously incessant caterwauling of social justice warriors has died down. With college campuses shuttered by the coronavirus pandemic and college adminstrations wondering if students will ever return, the hotbeds of liberal academia and far left political activism have fallen silent for the present at least. Student activism in the popular imagination is often
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Physician Explains the Most Beneficial Approach to Quality Family Time 0
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- April 17, 2020
By now we’ve probably all heard about the father arrested for playing catch with his daughter in a park. Regardless of whether you think the lockdown should continue, be lifted, or if you’re undecided on the issue, most people would agree that this incident was a bit heavy-handed. After all, one of the good things
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What We Lose When We Can’t Touch the World Around Us 0
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- April 17, 2020
During one of my daily walks with my toddler, when we passed his favorite playground, I noticed a new sign warning that the coronavirus survives on all kinds of surfaces and that we should no longer use the playground. Since then, I’ve taken great pains to prevent him from touching things. This hasn’t been easy.
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