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  • “The Bride Has Nothing On”

    “The Bride Has Nothing On”0

    • September 10, 2015

    Fashion Week is upon us – or so say the many headlines whose corresponding articles will likely reveal pictures of the latest, greatest, and… unusual attire.  The arrival of fashion week reminded me of an article published earlier this year in The Atlantic. Cleverly entitled Aisle Be Seeing You: The Rise of the Totally Transparent

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  • “OK Boomer” Is the First Salvo of a Larger Generational Showdown

    “OK Boomer” Is the First Salvo of a Larger Generational Showdown0

    According to Smithsonian Magazine, an Assyrian clay tablet from 2800 B.C. bears a gloomy inscription describing how the Assyrian youth were ruining civilization. “Our Earth is degenerate in these later days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents,” the

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  • “More Truly Educated Out of College Than In It.”

    “More Truly Educated Out of College Than In It.”0

    It seems you can’t turn around these days without seeing some type of article or list describing the top 10 ways to get into the best college or grad program. Such a mentality stems from the idea that true education is gained from an institution or organization. But by continually enforcing the idea that true

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  • “Shut Up, Bigot!”: The Intolerance of Tolerance

    “Shut Up, Bigot!”: The Intolerance of Tolerance0

    • August 26, 2015

    America is in the midst of a raging national debate on issues surrounding sexuality and gender. If you dare to suggest that gender is determined by sex and is immutable, that same-sex sex acts are immoral, or that marriage is a permanent, exclusive union of husband and wife, then you will be called an intolerant

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  • “Sentimentality”: Is It Screwing Up Education?

    “Sentimentality”: Is It Screwing Up Education?0

    Modern society is infected with sentimentality—“the cult of feeling”—and it’s screwing up our education system. That’s the thesis of British cultural commentator Theodore Dalrymple in his book Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality. According to Dalrymple, sentimentality has its roots in Romanticism and a Rousseauian view of children as having been born in a

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  • “Risk Compensation”: A Paradox Whose Time May Have Come

    “Risk Compensation”: A Paradox Whose Time May Have Come0

    “Risk compensation” is the theory that adopting certain safety measures can actually increase risky behavior by unduly increasing people’s sense of security. In a Washington Post article earlier this month, Terence McCoy reported on a man who wants to apply the theory to football. Erik Swartz, a University of New Hampshire professor of kinesiology, believes

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