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Were Cavemen more civilized than Millennials?375
- Culture
- August 19, 2016
In a previous article for Intellectual Takeout, I commented on G. K. Chesterton’s complaint that the modern world’s perception of the so-called “Cave Man” was based on a supercilious prejudice, or what might be called a chronological snobbery, which was akin to racism. The stereotype that we’ve created for our Neolithic ancestor is of a
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10 Strangest Deaths of Roman Emperors0
- Education
- August 19, 2016
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Fail U.: The False Promise of Higher Education0
- Education
- August 19, 2016
Department of Education recently proposed new regulations to punish colleges that attract students with misleading claims. But what if the whole system of higher education in America is guilty of that? In his latest book, Charles Sykes, a senior fellow at the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, makes the case that it is. Fail U.: The False Promise of
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Restoring the Four Pillars of Education1
- Education
- August 19, 2016
Few would argue that modern education is in crisis. Evidence suggests our system creates moral nihilists; professors admit they are teaching students who “know hardly anything about anything at all.” So what is to be done? If education is so bad, how do we fix it? We need to begin by reexamining what constitutes a good education, a
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Are Children Missing Life Lessons by not Gardening?0
- Culture
- August 19, 2016
Earlier this week, my colleague Daniel Lattier made the following claim: “When fewer men farm, civilization dies.” He went on to show that the decline of agricultural society – both in ancient Greece and Rome – was linked to the decline of virtuous living which the small family farm promoted. The small family farm is
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There’s No Western Civilization without Christianity0
- Western Civilization
- August 19, 2016
As my boss is prone to remind me, you can’t enjoy the fruit by cutting down the tree. Yet, that is exactly what many today hope to do when it comes to Western civilization: they want a world permeated with Western values such as freedom, justice, and equality that no longer preserves a knowledge of
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