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  • Is Our Culture’s Focus on Gender Childish?

    Is Our Culture’s Focus on Gender Childish?0

    One of the joys of being a parent—I have three children, ages 6, 4, and 8 months—is that one gets to witness individual case studies in human nature.     It’s no secret that small children are basically all id. They are capable of warmth and compassion, but those traits often disappear as soon as

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  • Is Organic Food Just a Waste of Money?

    Is Organic Food Just a Waste of Money?0

    If you are debating whether it’s worth it to spend a few extra dollars (each) on the organic versions of your grocery list items, the results are in. And… it’s still a toss-up. According to NPR, a new meta-analysis published in the British Journal of Nutrition suggests that organics do have higher levels of some

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  • Is NYT Story on Trump’s Taxes a ‘Bombshell’?

    Is NYT Story on Trump’s Taxes a ‘Bombshell’?0

    The New York Times, which apparently broke the law by publishing some of Donald Trump’s 1995 tax return, overpaid a tax accountant. Here’s the relevant NYT statement in a news report by NYT reporters David Barstow, Susanne Craig, Russ Buettner, and Megan Twohey about Trump’s taxes: Tax experts hired by the Times to analyze Mr.

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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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