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  • Why Greta Thunberg Should Be Time’s ‘Person of the Year’

    Why Greta Thunberg Should Be Time’s ‘Person of the Year’0

    Time Magazine has announced that this year’s Person of the Year award will go to the 16-year-old Greta Thunberg. The Swedish school-girl-turned-eco-activist has become the poster-girl of the climate change-turned-emergency worldwide. The choice was not surprising, given the media adulation for the girl who has traveled the globe with a minimal carbon footprint. Time has long abandoned

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  • Why Gratitude Is So Good for You (and for Those Around You)

    Why Gratitude Is So Good for You (and for Those Around You)0

    Gratitude may be more beneficial than we commonly suppose. One recent study asked subjects to write a note of thanks to someone and then estimate how surprised and happy the recipient would feel – an impact that they consistently underestimated. Another study assessed the health benefits or writing thank you notes. The researchers found that

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  • Why Grandparents Are Raising Their Grandchildren More Often

    Why Grandparents Are Raising Their Grandchildren More Often0

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  • Why Grad Rates are Meaningless

    Why Grad Rates are Meaningless0

    In a recent Intellectual Takeout piece, Daniel Lattier pointed out that colleges are now having to deal with incoming “book virgins”. To gain admittance to college in the 17th century, students had to be able to read and translate various Latin authors on sight. 100 years ago, students were required to have read various classical works

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  • Why Governments Shouldn’t Even Fund Schools

    Why Governments Shouldn’t Even Fund Schools1

    Education reporters frequently make the claim that government ought to fund and operate educational institutions because schooling is a public good. However, since schooling fails both conditions required for a public good to exist, schools should not be publicly operated. Schooling is Not a Public Good According to the economic definition, a public good is

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  • Why Government? We’re Not Angels

    Why Government? We’re Not Angels0

    As we enter into another presidential election season that will be filled with arguments about what government should and should not do, we would be wise to keep in mind that the structure and role of our government is rooted in a particular understanding of human nature. For much of the West’s history, man was

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