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  • Even the ancient Greeks thought their best days were history

    Even the ancient Greeks thought their best days were history0

    This May, Greece’s parliament passed yet another austerity bill in the hopes of securing more European debt relief. For nearly seven and a half years, creditors have held the country in an economic stranglehold. Along the way, they’ve offered a series of lessons in adding insult to injury. Political cartoons abroad portray Greeks as lazy,

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  • Even Math can be Biased

    Even Math can be Biased0

    Whenever the topic of bias and values in education comes up, most people generally would think of topics such as history or civics. But the idea of values driving all education goes much deeper. Even to math. One would assume that a teacher’s or school’s values and beliefs couldn’t interfere with math, right? After all,

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  • Even in Our Age of Ugly, Beauty Will Survive

    Even in Our Age of Ugly, Beauty Will Survive2

    “Beauty,” wrote philosopher Roger Scruton, “is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.” Whatever we may think of Scruton’s observation, it seems clear our ideas of beauty are at best confused, at worst degraded, and always subjective. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” is, of course, in

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  • Even If You’re Not Religious, This is Cool

    Even If You’re Not Religious, This is Cool0

    • December 21, 2015

    Even if you’re not religious, for the sake of cultural literacy, it’s still important to possess a knowledge of the world religions. Moreover, those who are non-religious can still admire the beauty of certain religious art and customs.    Such admiration might be appropriate when considering the positioning of the feasts of Christmas and the

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  • Euthanasia is Now Being Performed … on Prisoners

    Euthanasia is Now Being Performed … on Prisoners0

    Not too long ago, a request by a Belgian prisoner for euthanasia made international headlines — even though he was not permitted to take advantage of the legislation. But in a measure of how enthusiastically Canada has embraced euthanasia, one prisoner has already been killed under its Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) law, and three others

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  • Euthanasia in Canada: Let Them Die—They Know What They’re Doing

    Euthanasia in Canada: Let Them Die—They Know What They’re Doing0

    As Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying regime expands, it is meeting more resistance. One of the most powerful criticisms, one which has surfaced often in the media, is that some people with chronic illnesses, whose death is not reasonably foreseeable, are choosing to die because social services are inadequate. They do not want to, but

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