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  • Old Kindergarten Requirements Suggest Today’s Classrooms Are Too Much, Too Soon

    Old Kindergarten Requirements Suggest Today’s Classrooms Are Too Much, Too Soon2

    I received a rather frantic email from a friend when school started last fall. Panicking over the number of parents posting first day of preschool pictures, my friend wondered if she had made a mistake by not sending her four-year-old to school. “When did preschool become so popular?” she asked in dismay. She wasn’t imagining

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  • I’m a College Student. Here’s Why I Oppose Socialism.

    I’m a College Student. Here’s Why I Oppose Socialism.0

    In the 2016 presidential primaries, 2.1 million people under age 30 voted for democratic socialist Bernie Sanders. But do young Americans really know what it means to live under socialism? Cambodia, like other countries in the past and present, offers clear evidence of the outcomes of socialist policies such as the Green New Deal championed today by

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  • Should the Boston Marathon Bomber Get to Vote?

    Should the Boston Marathon Bomber Get to Vote?0

    During a CNN town hall on Monday, a student asked Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris whether they would allow felons in prison to vote: You have said that you believe that people with felony records should be allowed to vote while in prison. Does this mean that you would support enfranchising people like

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  • The Gender Charade Facing the Supreme Court

    The Gender Charade Facing the Supreme Court0

    It was announced this week that the U.S. Supreme Court would be considering a lower court decision that redefined the word “sex” to mean “gender identity.”    The case — R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC — stems from a 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling. It found that the federal government could

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  • The Truth About Georgetown’s Vote for Slavery Reparations

    The Truth About Georgetown’s Vote for Slavery Reparations0

    The Georgetown University undergraduate student body recently elected to pay reparations for the sale of 272 slaves by the university in 1838, which it used to settle debts. In 2019, this amounts to a $27.20 per-semester fee for each student. This is not an argument for or against reparations; it’s about statistical purity and the

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  • How Totalitarians Force Confessions From Innocent People

    How Totalitarians Force Confessions From Innocent People0

    I recently re-read George Orwell’s anti-Soviet fable Animal Farm for the first time since high school, and I found myself at a loss to explain one of the book’s darkest scenes to the student I was tutoring. In this scene, Napoleon (Orwell’s stand-in for Stalin) consolidates his power over Animal Farm (i.e. the Soviet Union)

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