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Charles Sumner, “moderate conservative,” on lifelong learning
Charles Sumner as sculpted by Anne Whitney Readers of this website have shown interest in primary source materials, so I am posting my notes on the speeches of a founder of the Republican Party,...
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Secularism and the Affordable Care Act
I asked my FB friends what they thought the word “secular” meant, and got a number of responses suggesting that it meant one thing: atheism. It appears that the culture wars have done their job: to...
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Index to blogs on education reform
ad for Spinoza toy This series of blogs not only reviews recent work on the reform of our education system, but points out disagreements in what is wrongly considered to be a unified establishment....
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Nostalgia for the “Middle Ages”
New Republic literary critic Leon Wieseltier was quoted in the Wall Street Journal op-ed page, May 29, 2013 as “Notable and Quotable.” These excerpts were taken from the commencement speech delivered...
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Hair and Make-up: Megyn Kelly smackdown
Megyn Kelly, often considered the brainiest of Fox News Channel anchors, does not define herself as a feminist, but she sure sounded like one in her spirited and feisty interviews with Lou Dobbs (Fox...
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Morale in the time of crisis overload
[This blog is dedicated to the thousands of Americans and allies who gave their lives in the invasion of Europe: D-Day, December 6, 1944. They knew what a fascist was.] Here is an excerpt from my...
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Origins of free speech and the Cuba question
War Production Board, 1942-43, NARA There is an impression, widely disseminated by supporters of the Obama administration, that renewing “diplomatic relations” and/or freer trade with Cuba (i.e., the...
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