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  • 4 Common Capitalism Myths Debunked

    4 Common Capitalism Myths Debunked0

    One of the most disappointing things I face as a college professor is the lack of understanding most students have regarding capitalism. The simple fact is, despite its importance to our daily lives, relatively few people have a strong grasp of what causes economic growth and why markets are so central to continuously rising standards

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  • 4 Blasphemies From John Stuart Mill on Public Education

    4 Blasphemies From John Stuart Mill on Public Education0

    On May 20th, 1806, one of the great philosophers of the 19th century was born: John Stuart Mill. Known for his promotion of utilitarianism, a philosophy declaring that “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness,” Mill also penned a number of

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  • 4 Bits of Advice from Ben Franklin on How to Be a ‘Rational Being’

    4 Bits of Advice from Ben Franklin on How to Be a ‘Rational Being’0

    Have you ever noticed that there seem to be fewer calm and level-headed people these days? Almost everyone seems to operate through a lens of emotion and feeling rather than plain ol’ common sense. This is perhaps no surprise as schools and society have encouraged a feelings-oriented approach to life through the advancement of positive

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  • 32 Million U.S. Adults are “Functionally Illiterate”… What Does That Even Mean?

    32 Million U.S. Adults are “Functionally Illiterate”… What Does That Even Mean?3

    • August 26, 2015

    In a few of our blog posts we’ve mentioned the statistic that 32 million (1 in 7) adults in the U.S. are considered “functionally illiterate.” There have been some questions about the meaning of this mysterious term “functionally illiterate,” so I have provided something in the way of an explanation below. The most frequently referenced

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  • 300 Christians Killed in Nigerian Christmas Massacres

    300 Christians Killed in Nigerian Christmas Massacres1

    While we were sitting down to Christmas dinner with our loved ones, Islamist militants launched a wave of coordinated attacks against Christian villages in Plateau State in Nigeria’s Middle Belt region. Between the evening of December 23 and Christmas Day morning, the militants killed an estimated 295 Christians across 25 villages in Bokkos and Barkin

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  • 3 Weird Things That Are ‘Triggering’ People This Holiday Season

    3 Weird Things That Are ‘Triggering’ People This Holiday Season0

    The commercialism of Christmas is obvious and, sadly, inevitable. With the grand kickoff that is the ever-ironic Black Friday shop-a-thon, commercial Christmas has a roaring start, a solid middle (built on holiday guilt and anxiety), and an equally grand finish (built on last-minute panic and close-of-holiday depression).   Now, the other evil lens of Christmas

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