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  • What Precedent and the Constitution Say About Postponing an Election

    What Precedent and the Constitution Say About Postponing an Election0

    If President Donald Trump’s goal was to get people talking about his latest tweet, he again succeeded after floating the idea of delaying the November elections. If this was a serious political trial balloon, however, it’s unlikely to have any success. Congress would have to pass, and the president would have to sign, any act

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  • What Plutarch Had to Say about Tiger Moms

    What Plutarch Had to Say about Tiger Moms0

    • September 24, 2015

    Let’s admit it: Tiger Moms are both intimidating and impressive. Impressive because they take their children to great heights; intimidating because many feel they can never live up to the same drive, energy, and standards that Tiger Moms expect. Interestingly, Plutarch had a thing or two to say about Tiger Parenting. Based on his advice,

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  • What Plato Teaches about Taylor Swift’s Music

    What Plato Teaches about Taylor Swift’s Music0

    • August 28, 2017

    In case you’ve been under a rock recently and didn’t hear, Taylor Swift is set to release a new album. According to social media and other venues, the song she released as a sneak preview for the album entitled “Reputation” was met with mixed reviews. Fortunately for Swift, these mixed reviews don’t appear to have

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  • What Philosophical School of Thought Do You Fall In?

    What Philosophical School of Thought Do You Fall In?20

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  • What Paul Ehrlich and Groundhog Day Have in Common

    What Paul Ehrlich and Groundhog Day Have in Common5

    Out he pops every Feb. 2 to the music, shouts, and fanfare of thousands of spectators, Punxsutawney Phil of Pennsylvania, the most celebrated prognosticator of weather in the United States. Should Phil cast his shadow on this auspicious date, the country will face six more weeks of winter. No shadow, and an early spring is

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  • What Pat Buchanan Gets Wrong About the Contested Election

    What Pat Buchanan Gets Wrong About the Contested Election0

    Despite Pat Buchanan’s record as a Trump-supporter sans pareil, his most recent column, on why Trump’s challenges to the Biden victory are both futile and possibly harmful, is profoundly unsettling. It is also based on questionable assumptions.  “It seems a certainty that not enough electoral votes could be flipped from Biden to Trump to overturn’s Joe Biden’s

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