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We Fought the Transgender Activists, and Lost. Here Are Five Lessons for Every Parent1
- Culture
- July 8, 2019
Our defeat was all but inevitable, yet the transgender activists still showed up in matching shirts and waved multicolored flags. Their speakers outnumbered ours 4 to 1, but they still hissed and muttered ugly names at our side while we spoke. We had gathered for the Arlington County School Board’s meeting on June 18. For four months,
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The Misery of Modern MLM0
- Culture
- July 8, 2019
“Hi Emma! How are you? It’s been years!!” I received this message from a woman who added me on Facebook. The years, by my count, were at least 20. And our contact was pretty limited even back then. My parents were friends with her parents during my childhood. She was several years older than me
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To Be Happy, First Be Pessimistic0
- Culture
- July 8, 2019
We all want to be happy, but we’re not terribly good at it. As a result, for centuries philosophers have wrestled with how to attain happiness. Few, though, have offered as novel an answer as Marcus Aurelius, one of Rome’s greatest emperors. Ready for it? Be a pessimist. This is admittedly an unappealing proposition, ranking
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The Roots of Political Correctness0
- Culture
- July 8, 2019
Over the last thirty years, political correctness has metastasized. Today, so many politically-correct assumptions have become mainstream that, as Tocqueville once predicted, they have narrowed our questions and our ability to question, rather than actually tell us the exact answers to things. Over the last decade, it has become normal for students, professors, and the
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It’s Not Just Her: The Worst Thing About Teaching0
- Culture
- July 8, 2019
Tara Blair Ball has taught for nine years. And she hates teaching. At the end of the school year, she published an article on Medium entitled, “The #1 Reason Why I Hate Teaching.” Inspired by a complaint received at the end of the school year, Ball explains how a parent was upset that her daughter
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New York City’s Students Deserve School Choice0
- Economics
- July 8, 2019
Heloise Moxey does not want to send her four-year-old son Bentley to the low-performing, South Bronx district schools that he is zoned to attend. “I won’t send him to the local public schools. The scores are horrible,” she said, adding that older son Lamar, 8, is thriving at the Leader’s Institute Charter School in Harlem.
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