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A subscriber to the Georgetown Forum, a Washington DC website, is offering “Toddler Conversion” kits. The editor of this blog is not entirely sure how these work, but he is nonetheless hailing this invention as one of the greatest breakthroughs in the last two hundred years. The idea has to be this: in minutes you …
It seems fair to allow a successful people to enjoy their fortunes while they are alive. It is quite another matter to create a sort of aristocracy by allowing huge wealth to be passed on to the next generation and for that wealth to be barely taxed at all. But this is what so many …
The boarding school is a particularly British institution. Even though child welfare is taken seriously now and schools try to stop bullying, the old horrors of boarding have still not been banished, and there is a “surge” of criminal cases against boarding schools, whether for past or current misdemeanors is not clear. Even if you …
“41% of Britons over 65 describe their pet or the television as their main source of company”. (TNS poll for Age UK/ The Times) It makes you wonder what elderly people did before the 1950s and the advent of television. Some wrote poetry, others read a book (that’s that rectangular thing made of paper, with …
American higher education is sick, especially in the social sciences & the humanities, the subjects that are needed to give direction and moral guidance to the natural & physical sciences. Today the graduate schools are obsessed with “research” ….. which is irrelevant to what the vast majority exposed to it will be doing for the …
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