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  • How College Students Really Feel About Free Speech on Campus

    How College Students Really Feel About Free Speech on Campus0

    A new survey finding that college students generally support free speech also shows what for some is a worrisome divide over what students value more: an “inclusive society” that “welcomes diverse groups” or protecting “the extremes of free speech.” The Knight Foundation’s  “Free Expressions of College Campuses” report polled students over the course of three

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  • How Collective Narcissism Fuels Political and Social Discord

    How Collective Narcissism Fuels Political and Social Discord0

    In 2007, a British school teacher in Sudan received a jail sentence under Sharia law because she allowed her pupils to name a classroom teddy-bear ‘Muhammad’. The day after the sentence was announced, more than 10,000 people took to the streets of Khartoum demanding the teacher’s execution for blasphemy. While alternative explanations existed – the

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  • How Coffee Drinking Helped Advance Women’s Rights

    How Coffee Drinking Helped Advance Women’s Rights0

    In 18th century Europe, many products and services reached a newly emergent middle class for the first time in human history. The capitalist age was maturing, and that meant that average people had money for the first time and lots of choices on how to spend it. One of the new products they could buy

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  • How Classroom Management Has Changed Since 1913

    How Classroom Management Has Changed Since 19130

    In 1913, the state of Kentucky published the Elementary Course of Study which was, according to its introduction, “… intended for the use of teachers of the common schools of the State, giving them a definitive idea of the amount of work to be done in each branch, and suggesting methods of doing it.” The

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  • How Classic Cartoons Created a Culturally Literate Generation

    How Classic Cartoons Created a Culturally Literate Generation2

    I recently picked up Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court for the first time. Finding the plot rather amusing, I began relaying it to my father over the weekend. Because he had never read the book, I was rather surprised when he began asking informed questions about the story. In no time

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  • How Cicero Created a Movement of Free Thinkers

    How Cicero Created a Movement of Free Thinkers0

    Cicero was a renowned Roman orator, statesman and writer. He was an enemy of one man rule and a self-described constitutionalist. During the turbulent twilight of the Republic he attempted tirelessly to establish a lasting peace in order to preserve his beloved republican government. Following the death of his daughter Tullia and his exile from

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