What in the World Were They Thinking?
For years the news has filled with reports of behaviors by people in influential positions that make the rest of [...]
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07, 2023
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01, 2023
Welcome to Topsy-Turvydom
Erika López Prater was an adjunct professor of Art History at Hamline University. Her course syllabus included a warning that [...]
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04, 2022
Can Thinking Really Be Taught?
My recent essay, “The Decline of Thinking in America,” included the recommendation that schools should change their emphasis from “telling students [...]
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08, 2019
Why Aren’t America’s Problems Being Solved?
The United States has had a border problem for decades and both political parties have blamed each other, promised to [...]
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05, 2019
Ideas That Are Destroying America
Many writers have lamented America’s moral and intellectual decline but few have identified the cause. I submit that it is [...]
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05, 2019
Why Venezuela’s Lesson Is Being Ignored
Our Lady [...]
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01, 2019
The Sad Legacy of the Self-Esteem Movement
It has been almost sixty years since the Gospel of Self-Esteem was first preached in America and quickly planted in [...]
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11, 2018
The Roots of Divisiveness
Divisiveness means “tending to cause disagreement or dissension.” The word is interesting because it illustrates the very condition it describes—people [...]
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07, 2017
On Listening and Learning
The occasion was a recent picnic and my discussion with a pharmacist began well. I mentioned that I have often [...]
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06, 2017
Restoring Restraint & Civility in America
Recently, in an essay titled The Root of Violence, I proposed that the solution to the problem of violence is [...]