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  • How Fiscally Healthy Is Your State?

    How Fiscally Healthy Is Your State?0

    The Mercatus Center has released its fiscal rankings of each state in the nation. Find your state in the map above to see how highly (or lowly) it may have ranked: Here’s what the report’s authors, Eileen Norcross and Olivia Gonzalez, had to say about the five states occupying the fiscal basement in 2015, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts,

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  • How Financial Knowledge was Taught in 1889

    How Financial Knowledge was Taught in 18890

    On November 22, 1889, Gertrude Jones of Tennyson, Indiana penciled her name into her copy of Complete Arithmetic, a math curriculum book in use at the time. In 2016, the book is now in my possession. It smells delightful, if you’re into old books. Below is Gertrude’s lovely cursive: Complete Arithmetic’s introduction describes the use

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  • How Federal Education Guidelines from 2014 are Destroying Kids’ Lives

    How Federal Education Guidelines from 2014 are Destroying Kids’ Lives0

    In 2015, Intellectual Takeout reported that many classrooms in Saint Paul Public Schools had devolved into physical violence. If a recent story in the Washington Times is any indication, those incidents may be part of a growing nation-wide epidemic.   The children of Josh and Nicole Landers have had horrifying experiences in Baltimore County Public Schools. Their 9-year-old son was bullied so

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  • How Fantasy Helps Us Appreciate the Past

    How Fantasy Helps Us Appreciate the Past0

    The Lord of the Rings. Star Wars. Harry Potter. These beloved fantasies, despite their differences in tone and setting, all have one thing in common. In each case, the great battle has already been fought. Aragorn’s quest to reclaim the throne of Gondor and help Frodo destroy the One Ring is the continuation and final

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  • How Fanatics Hack Our Minds (And Why We Let Them)

    How Fanatics Hack Our Minds (And Why We Let Them)0

    In his 1841 book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles MacKay wrote, “During seasons of great pestilence men have often believed the prophecies of crazed fanatics, that the end of the world was coming. Credulity is always greatest in times of calamity.” During the COVID-19 crisis, there has been no shortage of

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  • How Facebook and Netflix Are Disrupting the Education Status Quo

    How Facebook and Netflix Are Disrupting the Education Status Quo0

    Despite cries against the “corporatization of public schools,” the reality is that the private sector is injecting public education with much-needed innovation. Stuck in a 19th century factory model, mass schooling needs a 21st century makeover. Today’s tech giants are just the ones to usher public education into modernity. Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg,

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