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  • Want Dumbed Down Schools? Get Rid of Logic.

    Want Dumbed Down Schools? Get Rid of Logic.0

    In a recent column for The Washington Post, Valerie Strauss highlighted a program called NoRedInk, which helps students across the nation improve their writing skills. Given that only 27 percent of U.S. high school seniors are proficient in this area suggests that such a program is quite necessary. What’s interesting, however, are the areas in

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  • Want Boys to Become Men? Teach Them the Classical Virtues

    Want Boys to Become Men? Teach Them the Classical Virtues0

    There’s a growing realization that men are not as privileged as was once thought and may actually be getting the bad end of the bargain in society. Not only do they often bear the fallout from high-profile acts of violence or sexual aggression, but they are also finding it increasingly difficult to keep pace with

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  • Want answers? Learn to ask the right questions

    Want answers? Learn to ask the right questions0

    • June 26, 2017

    I’ve recently published a book on weight loss, and one of the questions put to me was: what qualifies you to write on this subject? Why didn’t you refer to the latest scientific research, or ask experts for their opinions? My response was that in philosophy we learn to ask the questions of ourselves. Philosophy

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  • Want a satisfying relationship? Don’t present yourself as a sex object

    Want a satisfying relationship? Don’t present yourself as a sex object0

    When Joan Holloway – the bombshell office worker on the show “Mad Men” – enters a room, she knows she looks good and is going to turn heads. Every morning, Joan meticulously does her makeup and hair and puts on a skintight dress. The men in her office take notice and are quick with the

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  • Want a Long-Lasting Marriage? Avoid Cohabitation.

    Want a Long-Lasting Marriage? Avoid Cohabitation.0

    In the last several decades, the frequency of couples living together before marriage has grown at such a great rate that to suggest a couple avoid doing so is regarded as prudish. Yet according to a new Pew Research report, cohabiting couples are setting themselves up for future divorce. “Among women who did not live

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  • Want a Life of Adventure, Drama, and Comedy? Have Kids.

    Want a Life of Adventure, Drama, and Comedy? Have Kids.5

    Only “61 percent of the able workforce is currently officially employed,” Victor Davis Hanson writes in a recent Epoch Times article. “In just 14 years,” he notes further, “the fertility rate has crashed to 1.64 from 2.12—meaning that both citizens and resident aliens in America aren’t replacing themselves.” That replacement rate without immigration is approximately

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