“Shooter on the Navy Yard.” I got that text at 8:35 a.m. on Monday. It was a group message to all of us interns who had spent the better part of our summers together working at the Washington Navy Yard––the place where 12 people were murdered by alleged gunman Aaron Alexis. I worked Naval History...
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Cursive writing improves mind and soul
Forty-five states have adopted the Common Core State Standards in education, cutting cursive from school curricula. Because of the 21st century notion that students don’t need to learn cursive, they spend about 10 minutes per day practicing handwriting, a dramatic decrease from an average of 45 minutes per day in the 1960s and 1970s. To...
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On trans-Atlantic arm-wrestling
The trans-Atlantic arm-wrestling match between Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Barack Obama has been fascinating to watch. Whatever you think of Obama’s foreign policy, it has been tough to watch their guy kick around our guy so thoroughly. I’ve been drinking more lately. The New York Times recently published a piece on its opinions...
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Inflate the bubble by expanding the grad program
ollege?” Seniors, surely sick of this question, often answer with “grad school.” Probe more deeply, and more answers unravel: pending applications, scheduled visits, varied fields, and elusive scholarships. The self-assured, curiosity-quelling answer of “grad school” quickly gives way to nebulous details prefaced with “maybe,” “potentially,” “I hope,” and “Lord willing and the creek don’t rise.”...
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‘Getting Away with Murder’
“America is a symbol of what can be to millions of oppressed people all over the world…America symbolizes modernity, diversity and democracy, and it is these three things which are the fanatics’ worst fears.” Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, said this on Hillsdale’s campus during a 2002 CCA. The “fanatics” were radical Muslims....