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  • Is It Okay to Bribe Your Kids?

    Is It Okay to Bribe Your Kids?0

    • July 31, 2015

    One of the “joys” of parenting is struggling to get your children to perform required tasks. The most difficult struggles usually involve getting them to do chores and homework.   Sometimes, after initial pleas and threats have been fruitless, after the child has done a mediocre job, or even after the child has been punished,

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  • Is It Okay for Men and Women to Have Different Roles?

    Is It Okay for Men and Women to Have Different Roles?0

    Around the world women do more unpaid work than men. The Gates Foundation says that needs to change in order to “unlock the potential of women”, according to a recent article for the New York Times. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development says that worldwide women spend “an average of 4.5 hours a day

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  • Is It Okay for Academia to Be Biased?

    Is It Okay for Academia to Be Biased?40

    Once upon a time, in the flourishing cultural centers of medieval Paris, Oxford, and Bologna, an institution emerged dedicated to the pursuit of truth: the university. This institution evolved from schools called studia generalia, which were attempts to educate monks and clerks beyond what they had received at cathedral or monastic schools. The universities were self-governing, often

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  • Is It More Rational to Bet That God Exists?

    Is It More Rational to Bet That God Exists?1

    You are going to die. Your life is quickly passing away, and your death will be for eternity. And the moment of this death is unpredictable. It could come 50 years from now or 5 minutes from now. It’s this sobering fact that forms the starting point of one of the most famous proofs for

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  • Is it Logical to Say that Health Care is a ‘Right’?

    Is it Logical to Say that Health Care is a ‘Right’?0

    In last week’s debate on Obamacare between former presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders, Sanders challenged Cruz to say that health care was a “right.” But what exactly does it mean to say that health care is a “right”? If you were to logically analyze the concept of “rights” you would discover that there

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  • Is It Important to Support Small Businesses?

    Is It Important to Support Small Businesses?0

    It’s difficult not to feel a degree of sympathy for those arrested at the “Democracy Spring” demonstration on Capitol Hill. They are, after all, highlighting the gross injustice at the heart of our present political and economic system. Take, for example, the fact that, between 2007 and 2012, the two hundred most politically active corporations

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