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  • The Plague of Presentism

    The Plague of Presentism12

    Presentism: Now there’s one ugly duckling of a word. My online dictionary defines presentism as “uncritical adherence to present-day attitudes, especially the tendency to interpret past events in terms of modern values and concepts.” To my surprise, the 40-year-old dictionary on my shelf also contains this eyesore of a word and definition. To be present,

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  • Public Schools Are Spending Money Like Crazy, Despite Sharp Enrollment Declines

    Public Schools Are Spending Money Like Crazy, Despite Sharp Enrollment Declines2

    The public education system has been failing students for years. From misappropriating funds to providing inadequate lessons and passing illiterate students; public schools are losing support. Despite this they continue receiving extensive budgets which do not properly represent enrollment rates, attendance numbers, or staffing issues. While it is true that 2020 was an extremely difficult year for

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  • Pandemic ‘Learning Loss’ Actually Reveals More About Schooling Than Learning

    Pandemic ‘Learning Loss’ Actually Reveals More About Schooling Than Learning3

    There are mounting concerns over profound learning loss due to prolonged school closures and remote learning. New data released last week by the U.S. Department of Education reveal that fourth-grade reading and math scores dropped sharply over the past two years. Fingers are waving regarding who is to blame, but the alleged “learning loss” now being exposed

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  • Why Did the British Give Reparations to Slave Owners?

    Why Did the British Give Reparations to Slave Owners?6

    The topic of slavery always evokes a flurry of emotions. Such was the case when the British government announced in 2015 that it had completed the payment of a loan borrowed to compensate slave owners for their loses due to the abolition of slavery. In an age when many are demanding that whites make reparations

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  • Young People Are Depressed…Who Can Blame Them?

    Young People Are Depressed…Who Can Blame Them?3

    Last year a Harvard Youth Poll found 51 percent of Americans ages 18-29 had felt depressed, down, or hopeless at times in the two weeks before responding to the survey. While adults might respond in similar numbers—feeling “down” covers a lot of territory—let’s take the poll at face value and assume that teens and twenty-somethings

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  • Judge Orders Fauci to Cough It Up

    Judge Orders Fauci to Cough It Up3

    A lawsuit against the federal government–Anthony Fauci in particular–from the Attorneys General of Missouri and Louisiana has been brewing for a good part of the summer of 2022. The issue concerns the censoring of certain high-level experts on social media, three of whom are senior scholars of the Brownstone Institute. We know for sure that

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