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  • Why Conservatives and Liberals Respond to COVID-19 Differently

    Why Conservatives and Liberals Respond to COVID-19 Differently0

    In a 2008 TED Talk, psychologist Jonathan Haidt said the worst idea in psychology is the notion that humans are born as a “blank slate.” Like the cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker, Haidt was rejecting the notion that the human mind is a blank slate at birth, an idea that can be traced to thinkers from

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  • Why Companies Pitch in Without Being Ordered To

    Why Companies Pitch in Without Being Ordered To0

    Severe shortages of critical medical supplies have prompted governments to compel private companies to fill the gap. In the U.S., President Donald Trump invoked rarely used powers to force General Motors to make ventilators, while the leaders of France, the U.K. and Japan have put pressure on companies to make more medical supplies. But, judging

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  • Why Colleges Should Drop Racial Preferences

    Why Colleges Should Drop Racial Preferences0

    The Gallup Organization and Inside Higher Ed co-hosted a conference in Washington on September 15. They called it “Not Out of the Woods: Colleges, Diversity and Affirmative Action after a Year of Protest and Court Battles.” Most of those in attendance were university officials of one kind or another. I was the sole participant who

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  • Why College Students Have More in Common with Non-PC Authors Than They Realize

    Why College Students Have More in Common with Non-PC Authors Than They Realize0

    Several years ago, I visited the two-room shack in Tupelo, Mississippi, in which Elvis Presley was born and in which he spent his childhood. To my great surprise, one of the few items hanging from the sparsely decorated walls of the home was a framed copy of Rudyard Kipling’s poem, “If,” which I knew well,

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  • Why College Graduates Still Can’t Think

    Why College Graduates Still Can’t Think0

    More than six years have passed since Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa rocked the academic world with their landmark book, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. Their study of more than 2,300 undergraduates at colleges and universities across the country found that many of those students improved little, if at all, in key areas—especially critical

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  • Why Cicero Merits Renewed Attention

    Why Cicero Merits Renewed Attention0

    John Adams said of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE) that “All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined.” Anthony Everitt called him an “architect of constitutions that still govern our lives.” Thomas Jefferson said the Declaration of Independence was based on “the elementary books of public right, as Aristotle,

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