Michael Gerson
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Ginn approach strives for 'miracles' in educationOct 06, 2014 1:01 am - Ginn Academy resembles no urban public school I've ever visited: all male, dress shirt and tie, the Socratic method employed in classrooms. School spirit seems imported ...
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Introspection time for evangelicalsSep 30, 2014 1:01 am - Christian conservatives are often the subject of study by academics, who seem to find their culture as foreign as that of Borneo tribesmen. And this is a particularly in...
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Introspection time for evangelicalsSep 28, 2014 5:01 am - Christian conservatives are often the subject of study by academics, who seem to find their culture as foreign as that of Borneo tribesmen. And this is a particularly in...
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The value of a human lifeSep 21, 2014 1:01 am - From Belgium comes news that a mentally disturbed prisoner is to be granted government help in committing suicide. A typically shallow ethical debate ensued - isn't assi...
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Obama's careful warSep 14, 2014 1:01 am - The most compelling and encouraging parts of President Obama's Islamic State speech - his intention to "degrade and ultimately destroy" the enemy, his pledge to hunt dow...
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Carrying the fight to the enemySep 11, 2014 1:01 am - As America pivots back to the Middle East -- in belated recognition that America's enemies never pivoted from their intention to establish a territorial expression of ra...
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Inertia on Ebola is having dire consequencesSep 07, 2014 1:01 am - Sometimes the artifice of writing - metaphors, historical comparisons, the just-so quote - fails. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa demands directness: We are about to w...
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The troubling new slant on story of IsraelSep 02, 2014 1:01 am - The monumental tapestry triptych by Marc Chagall, hanging in the State Hall of the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem, hints at some of the artist's own memories, including fr...
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If U.S. doesn't lead war on terror, who will?Aug 26, 2014 1:01 am - Responding to the horrifying murder of photojournalist James Foley, Secretary of State John Kerry declared, "ISIL [the Islamic State] and the wickedness it represents mu...
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The paradox of American diversityAug 20, 2014 5:01 am - While I was growing up in an overwhelmingly white, resolutely middle-class neighborhood west of St. Louis, the city of Ferguson - about 20 minutes north around I-270, pa...