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What Happened to American Civics?1
My son’s school assigned a civics project for summer vacation. The project’s scope is expansive and spans from explaining the history and functions of the three branches of government to creating a flip book of landmark Supreme Court cases like Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v Board of Education. One of the tasks is a minor level of
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Cicero and Democracy: What an Ancient Thinker Can Teach Us About Government2
- Politics, Featured, Philosophy
- August 9, 2024
Ancient philosophers didn’t like democracy. Cicero, the great Roman defender of natural rights, is a case-in-point. So as Americans gear up for another presidential election, it’s worth taking a look at his reasons for rejecting popular government. Politics played an outsized role in Cicero’s life, so it’s not surprising that he wrote and spoke a
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Back to School, and Time to Foster Creativity0
Back-to-school season is here, and with the recent examples of race-based classroom activities and sexually charged curriculum in schools nationwide, parents are right to wonder what their students will be taught this fall. A recent commentary by an education reporter about his own children revealed that last year his sixth grader had no homework, spelling tests, handwriting
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Friday Comic: Wants and Needs1
- Entertainment
- August 9, 2024
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Could the Olympics Die With the Baby Boomers?4
- Entertainment, Culture
- August 8, 2024
The pageantry of the Olympic Games are diverting attention from a question which must keep members of the International Olympic Committee awake at night: will the modern Games survive? “If we don’t get young people playing sport, we won’t be here for very much longer,” IOC spokesperson Mark Adams said at a press conference last week. “We have
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Adam Smith Thought This Was His Most Important Book2
- Economics, Featured, Philosophy
- August 8, 2024
Adam Smith is best known for writing The Wealth of Nations, but in a way, his work in economics took a back seat to his moral philosophy. In fact, Smith thought that his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, was more important than his economic theory. It’s in this book, for example, that Smith
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