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  • Check Out These Hilarious Philosophical “Attack Ads”

    Check Out These Hilarious Philosophical “Attack Ads”0

    • November 5, 2015

    If done right, humor can be a great educator. Perhaps some of you have seen these before, but they escaped my attention until I came across them on a friend’s Facebook page today. They’re faux attacks on modern philosophers made to look like today’s political attack ads. They’re hilarious, and a fun introduction into the

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  • Check Out the 10 Books Universities Are Assigning to Incoming Freshmen

    Check Out the 10 Books Universities Are Assigning to Incoming Freshmen0

    It seems one can’t open an internet browser these days without seeing some new story on the unrest and chaos prevailing throughout college campuses. One of the latest incidents was highlighted in The Wall Street Journal by Evergreen State College professor Bret Weinstein. As Weinstein tells it, he was forced to hold his biology class

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  • Check Out David Foster Wallace’s Course Syllabus

    Check Out David Foster Wallace’s Course Syllabus0

    • August 3, 2015

    With the July 31 release of the biopic The End of the Tour, the late author David Foster Wallace is once again in the news. Wallace is best known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which Time named one of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. For your interest, here is a link

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  • Cheating Linked to Unfaithful Parents, Study Finds

    Cheating Linked to Unfaithful Parents, Study Finds0

    Marital fidelity doesn’t come easily. When the cheating website Ashley Madison was hacked in 2015, it was revealed that the company had some 37 million users. The same year, in a YouGov survey, one in five Americans admitted to being unfaithful.   If these numbers don’t persuade you, consider the words J.R.R. Tolkien wrote to

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  • CHAZ Holds a Record for Marxist Utopias

    CHAZ Holds a Record for Marxist Utopias0

    One of the more amusing spectacles of the recent protests has been the establishment of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) – now called the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) – in the middle of downtown Seattle, Washington. Conservatives on social media have had a field day making light of the pint-sized experiment in neo-Marxist

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  • ChatGPT: The Modern Oracle

    ChatGPT: The Modern Oracle1

    “All men by nature desire to know,” says Aristotle at the beginning of his Metaphysics. This is a natural, healthy, even virtuous, longing in the human heart. But it can also get us into trouble when that desire is corrupted. ChatGPT and similar AI technologies are powerful information tools, but their use does not come

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