Students debate religion and politics in high school letters
Dr. H H Remmers reports survey results where 40 percent view Earth as center of the universe and 60 percent support banning certain books. The correspondence questions whether instruction in authoritarian commandments would curb such views and cites rationalist thinkers like Zola Adams and Ingersoll.
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The Common Man and the Age of War Style
A reflective piece contrasts modern discourse with reverent historic debates. It laments a decline in civility and style as levels of power rise, citing Moscow exchanges between a California grocer’s boy and a Kursk coal miner’s son. It questions whether public insults and destruction have become normal.
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George III
Tom Paine
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California
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