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Shane Ralston

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  • College Prof Says he was Fired for not Dumbing Down his Course

    College Prof Says he was Fired for not Dumbing Down his Course0

    The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) recently released a report about a community college professor who was terminated for maintaining high academic standards for his students. The higher ed institution was the Community College of Aurora (CCA), Colorado, and the professor was Nathaniel Bork, a teacher of philosophy. The college “did not afford Bork

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  • 3 Ways to Spot an Ideologue

    3 Ways to Spot an Ideologue1

    In 1960, Daniel Bell’s book The End of Ideology was published. In it, he declared what “sensible” people like himself already knew: Ideological commitments are mere barriers to social progress. Incremental improvements in technology, entrepreneurship and new methods of governance, not endless debates between capitalists and socialists, liberals and conservatives, fascists and communists, would mark

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  • The Foundation of Neil Gorsuch’s Judicial Philosophy

    The Foundation of Neil Gorsuch’s Judicial Philosophy0

    Listening to Diane Feinstein’s grilling of Neil Gorsuch during the recent Senate judicial nomination hearings, you might have noticed a question about the Supreme Court nominee’s opposition to euthanasia or mercy killing. Gorsuch confesses that he wrote a dissertation, turned into a book (The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia), arguing in favor of existing

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  • Americans Slip in Global Happiness Survey. But What is ‘Happiness’?

    Americans Slip in Global Happiness Survey. But What is ‘Happiness’?0

    The 2017 World Happiness Report, a list of 155 countries ranked according to multiple measures of personal and collective welfare, was recently released by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), a United Nations initiative. According to the report, the countries with the happiest inhabitants are Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, Finland, the Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand,

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