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  • Cartoonist Fired After Poke at Big Ag CEOs

    Cartoonist Fired After Poke at Big Ag CEOs0

    Rick Friday, the longtime cartoonist whose drawings had appeared in the Iowa-based publication Farm News for more than two decades, drew his final cartoon for the publication last week, he said. In a Facebook message posted April 30, Friday suggested he was fired because his cartoon “insulted” someone affiliated with one of the corporations mentioned

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  • True Education Involves Suffering

    True Education Involves Suffering0

    One of the best pieces of educational advice I’ve heard in recent months didn’t come from a book or a talk about education. It came from a film about wine. This past week I watched A Year in Burgundy on Netflix. I highly recommend this documentary not only for the information it provides on the winemaking process,

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  • Reintegrating the Humanities

    Reintegrating the Humanities0

    • May 5, 2016

    I have always sought to instill into my students that a knowledge of literature is not possible without an adequate knowledge of history, philosophy and theology. I stress, for instance, that we cannot know the plays of Shakespeare unless we know something about the time and culture in which he was living and the philosophical

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  • The Actual ‘Sword in the Stone’?

    The Actual ‘Sword in the Stone’?0

    Even if you haven’t actually read a version of the legend of King Arthur, you’ve probably seen one of the movies or TV miniseries about it. I well remember the least serious: the 1963 animated Disney classic The Sword in the Stone, which many children from then on have also seen. We just don’t have

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  • Why are Colleges Banning ‘Any Product that Looks like a Cigarette’

    Why are Colleges Banning ‘Any Product that Looks like a Cigarette’0

    In this age of campus speech codes and safe spaces, are we really surprised that some university administrators act as moralistic tyrants over their student fiefdoms? The movement for a tobacco-free campus is no different. University officials around the United States are waging a war on the evil smoking “culture.” Consider the anti-tobacco policy of

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  • Ben Franklin on the Value of Rational Debate

    Ben Franklin on the Value of Rational Debate0

    When students in a maximum security prison education program beat out West Point cadets in a debate competition a while back, the story made headlines because of its almost man-bites-dog nature.  West Point debate coach Adam Scher recently responded to the phenomenon in an opinion piece for The Washington Post. As Scher implies, debate competitions

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