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  • What Year Did Healthcare Become a Natural Right?

    What Year Did Healthcare Become a Natural Right?0

    Bernie Sanders declares with piety, “Healthcare is a human right.” His statement may sound reasonable, because when we think about someone without healthcare what comes to mind is pain, suffering, and the loss of hope and dignity. Bernie is correct that no one in a country as prosperous as ours should be without some form

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  • What Would You Do if $1,300 Showed Up in Your Pizza Delivery Box?

    What Would You Do if $1,300 Showed Up in Your Pizza Delivery Box?0

    • September 22, 2015

    Ben Franklin once famously said, “Honesty is the best policy.” A California man recently discovered the truth of that statement. According to CBS Sacramento, Mike Vegas had several items from Domino’s Pizza delivered to his house the other day. When he went back to eat the leftovers, he discovered he had received a bonus. A

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  • What would Socrates do?

    What would Socrates do?0

    Surveying news headlines in recent years, it seems that cheating is rampant. In the athletic arena, Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles for using performance-enhancing drugs. In business, some of the world’s largest banks have paid nearly $200 billion – the equivalent of the GDP of New Zealand – in

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  • What Would Really Happen If We End the US Department of Education?

    What Would Really Happen If We End the US Department of Education?5

    After the recent presidential election victory by Donald Trump, perennial calls to end the US Department of Education grew louder. With Republicans gaining control of the US Senate, and retaining control of the US House of Representatives as well, the prospect of eliminating the department became more plausible. But don’t hold your breath. When Trump

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  • What would Enlightenment Thinkers have Thought of Trump?

    What would Enlightenment Thinkers have Thought of Trump?0

    American democracy is feared to be under threat. Comparisons with the 1930s are rife, and Donald Trump is now routinely called a potential Hitler or Mussolini. But some of Trump’s Republican critics have found a different source of inspiration: the great philosophers of the Enlightenment, who have a good deal to say on the subject of

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  • What Will the Future Think of Us?

    What Will the Future Think of Us?0

    I love reading histories and biographies. Because of my interest in the past, a particular fantasy is pestering me. What if I could return from the grave in fifty years or more, and see what historians of the future might have written of the time in which I have lived, particularly the last 30 years?

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