The Most Serious Thinking Error
What mental error poses the greatest obstacle to intelligent thought and behavior today? It’s hard to pick just one, but [...]
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01, 2014
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01, 2014
Will America Become Muslim?
The expansion of Islam is already well underway. But if you are thinking, “Let’s strengthen the NSA, CIA, FBI, and [...]
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12, 2013
A Special Kind of Giving
The Christmas season encourages us to shift our attention from receiving to giving, and that is a blessing because it [...]
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12, 2013
The Christmas Billboard Controversy
Times Square billboards are rather prominent, so it was inevitable that the message recently posted there by an atheist group [...]
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12, 2013
Pope Francis on Poverty
When Sarah Palin said the Pope’s views on poverty were “kind of liberal” and Rush Limbaugh called them “pure Marxism,” [...]
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12, 2013
Thinking Deficiency Syndrome
Never heard of Thinking Deficiency Syndrome (TDS)? That’s not surprising. I just invented the term and the acronym because a [...]
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11, 2013
The Role of Attitude in Learning
The role of attitude is often ignored in discussions of educational achievement. One reason is that the usual definition of [...]
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11, 2013
Let Them Respond . . . Please!
My heart goes out to the guests on news analysis shows. After spending years acquiring expertise in their fields, they [...]
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11, 2013
What’s Really Wrong with Education
It was recently revealed that the “Common Core” curriculum crams partisan political ideas into children’s minds. For example, a grade [...]
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11, 2013
Progressivism’s Fundamental Flaw
Progressivism is the dominant political and social philosophy of our time. Even people who know little about it tend to [...]