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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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  • Four Reasons to Avoid Teaching Stranger Danger to Children

    Four Reasons to Avoid Teaching Stranger Danger to Children1

    Are you the parent of a young child? If so, I’m willing to bet that some well-intentioned person has sent you a YouTube video called Child Abduction (Social Experiment). I’ve been sent this video 5 times over the past several years, the most recent instance being last week. The video goes thus: a guy named

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  • Four Reasons Literature Needs to Be Saved From Its Teachers

    Four Reasons Literature Needs to Be Saved From Its Teachers0

    “We read a lot of literature in high school,” a first-year student explained to me. “And that’s why I don’t like it.” When I asked her what she had read and how it had been taught, she answered: “‘Huckleberry Finn.’ It shows that slavery is wrong.” If you didn’t know that already, I thought, you

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  • Four Reasons ‘You’re a Hater’ Has Become Fashionable Slander

    Four Reasons ‘You’re a Hater’ Has Become Fashionable Slander0

    Hatred has been having a boom time. No insult cuts us more deeply than “you’re a hater”. It means that you are intransigent, intolerant, bigoted and probably a secret nose-picker. “You’re a hater” (or its close cousin, “you’re a bigot”) shuts down all dialogue and turns the alleged hater into a pariah. It was not

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  • Four Questions James Comey Actually Answered in Senate Hearing

    Four Questions James Comey Actually Answered in Senate Hearing0

    Former FBI Director James Comey took questions from a Senate committee for almost four hours Wednesday, but had the same answers for many of them. Comey, who President Donald Trump fired in May 2017, fielded questions remotely by video link primarily about the FBI’s Russia-Trump investigation, code-named “Crossfire Hurricane,” before the Justice Department named a

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