Culture

Why Schools Should Reconsider Abandoning This One Simple Subject 0
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- January 2, 2018
Over the weekend, I spent a good deal of time reading a fascinating book entitled “Lords of the Earth.” The book tells the true story of Stanley Albert Dale, an Australian who eventually went to the primitive mountain regions of Papau, Indonesia, to work with a number of stone age cannibal tribes known as the
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‘Man-Flu’: It’s real?0
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- January 2, 2018
It’s day six of the man-flu: my head pounds, body aches, and some foul demon is still sucking the marrow from my bones, so heavy are my limbs. Surprisingly, my wife who is “100-months pregnant” and may be going into labor at any moment has been mostly doting, urging rest so that I can pull the
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Your New Year’s Resolutions Fail Because You’re Not Listening 0
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- January 2, 2018
If you are like me, you’ve resolved to make changes in your life only to experience the frustration of sliding back into old habits. Knowing you need to make a change, you’ve set your goal. On Day 1, all goes well. By Day 2, the pull of old habits is strong. By dint of
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Our Narcissistic Age Could Use Some ‘Casablanca’ Values 0
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- January 2, 2018
Casablanca never could have been made today. The classic movie, which turned seventy-five this year, features themes that would never fly in today’s world: that personal happiness is not the most important goal; that feelings ought to be ignored at times; and that romantic love isn’t always worth pursuing. Talk about retro values. In case
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Have a Low IQ? The Government Can Take Your Child.0
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- December 29, 2017
Amy Fabbrini and Eric Ziegler of Redmond, Oregon, did something this Christmas that many parents take for granted: they celebrated it with their child. The couple’s 10-month-old son Hunter had been in foster care almost since the day he was born. But last week, The Oregonian reports, a judge declared that the state had not
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‘The Last Jedi’ is Awful and Disney is Ruining Star Wars 0
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- December 29, 2017
In 1964, shortly after the release of Disney’s adaptation of P. L. Travers’ charming 1934 book Mary Poppins, J.R.R. Tolkien sent a letter to one Miss J.L. Curry of Stanford University. In the letter, Tolkien complained about the corrupting influence Walt Disney’s movies had on literary works. “Though in most of the ‘pictures’ proceeding from his
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