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  • Emma Watson just won the first ‘Gender-Neutral’ acting award. What does that mean?

    Emma Watson just won the first ‘Gender-Neutral’ acting award. What does that mean?0

    In case you missed it, Emma Watson made history Sunday, winning MTV’s first gender-neutral acting award. So what does that mean? Unless I’m missing something, it appears that MTV just lumped male and female actors into a single category, giving out a single award for the best acting performance. That doesn’t seem like that big

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  • Embracing Values, Losing Meaning

    Embracing Values, Losing Meaning0

    • August 27, 2015

    “Nowadays we hear a great deal about ‘teaching values’ in schools. Although sincerely held by many people who mean well, this notion is a mistaken concept. For what true education attempts to impart is meaning, not value. This sly misemployment of the word ‘value’ as a substitute for such words as ‘norm,’ ‘standard,’ ‘principle,’ and

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  • Embracing Liberty as a Life Philosophy

    Embracing Liberty as a Life Philosophy0

    FEE’s eminent founder, Leonard E. Read, often opined that it was the duty of every lover of liberty to introduce it to others “as a life philosophy.” It’s a phrase we at FEE still use today, and every day. We’re able to preach it with conviction because we practice it with passion. What does it

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  • Embracing Heroes of the Past, Warts and All

    Embracing Heroes of the Past, Warts and All0

    Saints are heroes, but heroes are rarely saints. When nuance was still a word in the American vocabulary, we understood that a hero came with warts. Take Robert E. Lee, for instance. Dwight Eisenhower pronounced Lee “one of the supremely gifted men produced by our Nation” and kept his portrait in the White House. Franklin Roosevelt described Lee as

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  • Elon Musk’s Economic Truth Bomb to Joe Rogan

    Elon Musk’s Economic Truth Bomb to Joe Rogan0

    Elon Musk dropped an economic truth bomb on Joe Rogan’s podcast a couple of months ago. “If you don’t make stuff, there’s no stuff.” Obvious? You’d think so. But, as Musk pointed out, our economic policies throughout the COVID-19 pandemic have ignored that simple truth. The prevailing assumption is that the government can press “pause”

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  • Elon Musk Wants Talent, Not Diplomas

    Elon Musk Wants Talent, Not Diplomas0

    Elon Musk says skills matter more than diplomas. The founder and CEO of corporate innovation giants Tesla and SpaceX tweeted on February 2 that he is hiring for his artificial intelligence group at Tesla and wants to recruit the most talented people he can find. Talent, to Musk, means “deep understanding” of artificial intelligence and the ability

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