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  • Four Things We Can Learn From the Amish About Technology

    Four Things We Can Learn From the Amish About Technology0

    Picture the Amish for a moment. Do you see dour men in bulky black coats with beards? Horse-drawn buggies clomping down asphalt highways? A technophobic people horribly out of step with the twenty-first century? If these are your thoughts, you’re not alone. Yet according to Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired magazine and author of “What

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  • Four Things to Expect as the Trump Impeachment Inquiry Goes Public

    Four Things to Expect as the Trump Impeachment Inquiry Goes Public0

    After a month of closed hearings, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is slated to hold public impeachment hearings Wednesday and Friday. The committee, under Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., will hear testimony from three witnesses regarding President Donald Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Democrats seek to find out whether

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  • Four Signs Parents Won’t Be Sending Their Kids Back to Public School This Fall

    Four Signs Parents Won’t Be Sending Their Kids Back to Public School This Fall0

    As disruptive as the 2020/2021 academic year was, it led to many positive educational changes that will be transformative and long-lasting. Most notably, parents have been re-empowered to take back the reins of their children’s education from government bureaucrats and teachers unions. Frustrated by school closures and district “Zoom schooling,” families fled public schools in

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  • Four Reasons Why Socialism Is Becoming More Popular

    Four Reasons Why Socialism Is Becoming More Popular0

    The newfound openness of large numbers of Americans to socialism is, by now, a well-documented phenomenon. According to a Gallup poll from earlier this year, 43 percent of Americans now believe that some form of socialism would be good thing, in contrast to 51 percent who are still against it. A Harris poll found that four in ten Americans prefer socialism

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  • Four Reasons Why People Are Choosing Not to Have Children

    Four Reasons Why People Are Choosing Not to Have Children0

    North Carolina State University Professor (Emeritus) Mike Walden is known for explaining complex issues in ways understandable to the general reader. That is unusual among scholars. Three “economic thrillers” written by Professor Walden and his wife M.E. Whitman Walden, Micro Mayhem (2006), Macro Mayhem (2006) and Fiscal Fiasco (2014), show how they do it. Professor Walden just posted a short, down-to-earth

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  • Four Reasons Why College Degrees Are Becoming Useless

    Four Reasons Why College Degrees Are Becoming Useless0

    Students are running out of reasons to pursue higher education. Here are four trends documented in recent articles: 1. Graduates have little to no improvement in critical thinking skills The Wall Street Journal reported on the troubling results of the College Learning Assessment Plus test (CLA+), administered in over 200 colleges across the US. According to the

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