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  • Is NPR Pushing Propaganda about the Benefits of Preschool?

    Is NPR Pushing Propaganda about the Benefits of Preschool?0

    The other day, NPR published an article on the benefits of Pre-K education. Highlighting a recent consensus statement on preschool released by The Brookings Institute, the article went bonkers on social media, presumably because of the following announcement: “Some of the nation’s top researchers who’ve spent their careers studying early childhood education recently got together

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  • Is Nihilism the Logical End of Atheism?

    Is Nihilism the Logical End of Atheism?7

    What happens when nihilism is taken to its logical and philosophical conclusion? “Human rights are just like heaven and like God. It’s just a fictional story that we have invented and spread around. It may be a very nice story… but it’s just a story. It’s not a reality.” So says Noah Yuval Hariri, a

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  • Is New York City Entering a Pension Death Spiral like Chicago?

    Is New York City Entering a Pension Death Spiral like Chicago?0

    As bad as the situation in Chicago is, with a public pension system 42 billion in the red, New York has even worse exposure. Its standings include 65 billion in unfunded pension liabilities, 100 billion in unfunded retiree health care, and a city debt of approximately 50 billion – for a grand total of 215

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  • Is Natural Medicine Fake? Is Conventional Medicine Evil? It’s Not So Simple.

    Is Natural Medicine Fake? Is Conventional Medicine Evil? It’s Not So Simple.13

    Natural medicine is gaining traction as a viable form of treatment for many ailments. People are excited that there are often low-cost alternative treatments and are encouraged by the fact that so many remedies can be made or used at home. With its strengths of focusing on prevention and seeking the root of health problems,

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  • Is Motherhood Falling Out of Fashion?

    Is Motherhood Falling Out of Fashion?0

    Over the last several months, I’ve received multiple recommendations for one single book: Jane Eyre. I finally got around to cracking its cover and can happily say that I’m a quarter of the way through – and enjoying it very much. Jane Eyre is prominently known for the rather stormy relationships the title character has

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  • Is Modern Man Suffering from a Lack of Passion?

    Is Modern Man Suffering from a Lack of Passion?0

    • September 1, 2015

    It can be tempting to diagnose modern Western society as being hedonistic and intemperate with passion. Many perpetuate this diagnosis on the basis of such symptoms as the loosening of sexual mores, the prevalence of obesity, and the constant search for new forms of entertainment. But according to some modern social critics, it was not

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