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  • Tuition-Free College isn’t Free—But it Does Have Some of the Makings of a Pyramid Scheme

    Tuition-Free College isn’t Free—But it Does Have Some of the Makings of a Pyramid Scheme0

    Proposals to make public university and college attendance tuition free were floated by Democratic candidates during the 2016 presidential election primaries. Bernie Sanders was and still is one of its most ardent supporters. Hilary Clinton advocated it during the general election. For many Republicans—such as New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and President Donald Trump—it is

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  • Trying to Keep Horrible Crimes in Perspective

    Trying to Keep Horrible Crimes in Perspective2

    Stunned joy is what most of us felt when we learned that Charlotte Sena, the 9-year-old abducted while riding her bike in upstate New York, has been found and returned to her family — alive. The alleged perp has been seized, bringing the number of active Amber Alerts in the entire USA to… one: Keshawn

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  • Truth: Often Unwelcome, Never ‘Dead’

    Truth: Often Unwelcome, Never ‘Dead’0

    In March 2017, frustrated by the new president’s casual approach to truth, Time Magazine published an issue cover with the title “Is Truth Dead?” Its graphics were identical to those of an iconic 1966 cover with the title “Is God Dead?” Such hype isn’t unique. Just last January, The Atlantic published a thoughtful article whose subtitle expressed a closely related

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  • Truth Is More Than Propositional

    Truth Is More Than Propositional3

    Navigating a world riddled with attacks on gender, goodness, and morality, I’m always encouraged by people who cling to truth. Still, even as we hold to rightly ordered propositions, we have to recognize exactly what truth encompasses because it has profound impacts on our systems of belief and how we communicate. What Is Truth? Many

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  • Truth Is Being Replaced in American Colleges

    Truth Is Being Replaced in American Colleges0

    In the U.K. college typically lasts just three years. Students apply directly to a discipline – Psychology or Biology – supposedly having received their general education in high school. This process worked in the past, when only a tiny fraction of the eighteen-year-old population went on to college. The American higher education experience has always

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  • Truth Dies in Darkness

    Truth Dies in Darkness5

    Can you kill truth? Probably not, but a lot of people are doing their best to dig its grave. A man I know teaches in a prestigious private school in Northern Virginia that prides itself on its progressive agenda. Students and faculty attend workshops on such subjects as critical race theory, and teachers must be

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