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  • Do Participation Trophies Actually Make Kids Worse Off?

    Do Participation Trophies Actually Make Kids Worse Off?0

    Like many young adults my age, I received a fair number of participation certificates, ribbons, medals, and trophies growing up. Arguably, the “accomplishments” that earned those awards were not always impressive. For example, I participated in pine wood derby races, and more often than not, was quite content to let someone else do the bulk

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  • Do Not Pet: The Consequences of Humanizing Animals

    Do Not Pet: The Consequences of Humanizing Animals0

    Every so many months it happens again: someone crosses the barrier into a zoo animal’s cage or encounters an animal in the wild, expecting it to be friendly and docile, only to be confronted with the fact that they are called wild animals for a reason. Take the recent instance of an Arizona woman who

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  • Do Not Get a PhD in the Liberal Arts, Unless…

    Do Not Get a PhD in the Liberal Arts, Unless…2

    I have a Ph.D. in Theology. I’m happy I have the Ph.D., and it’s been useful to me both in my thinking and writing. But would I have gone on for a Ph.D. knowing what I do now? Probably not. Recently, my friend Dave Deavel published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal titled “The

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  • Do New Inventions Kill Old Liberties?

    Do New Inventions Kill Old Liberties?0

    There is one aspect of modern science and machinery that nobody has noticed. It is quite new, and it is enormously important. It is this; that the very fact of using new methods makes it easier to fall back on old morals, especially if they are very immoral morals. These prescient words came from the

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  • Do Most Humans Long to Be Ruled?

    Do Most Humans Long to Be Ruled?0

    Is America ripe for a dictatorial coup? It’s a question more and more pundits are asking. (We’ve also chimed in.) Why? First, it’s a presidential election year. And everyone gets a little crazy crazier during election season. But it’s more than that. Ross Douthat, writing in the New York Times over the weekend, observed that

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  • Do More Americans Need to Get Outdoors?

    Do More Americans Need to Get Outdoors?0

    It’s becoming increasingly uncommon for adults and children alike to get out of doors, and that’s causing major health problems. According to U.S. News and World Report, the failure of many Americans to get out of doors may be related to childhood temper tantrums and even “chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and asthma.” As

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