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  • Three Dangerous Philosophical Novels

    Three Dangerous Philosophical Novels1

    “I choose novels that let me turn my brain off,” a student confessed to me. My immediate response was to chastise her, “You did not receive a brain so that it could be turned off.” However, that evening I found myself streaming an old sitcom episode while washing dishes instead of listening to the dozen

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  • Three Cures for a Society Obsessed With Offenses

    Three Cures for a Society Obsessed With Offenses0

    I’m a positive type of person. I like to smooth things over, to think the best of others. So it startled me to realize that, several months ago, I was doing the exact thing I prided myself on not doing: jumping to conclusions and thinking the worst of another person.    Unfortunately, many fall into

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  • Three Common Ways Governments Misuse Statistics and What You Can Do About It

    Three Common Ways Governments Misuse Statistics and What You Can Do About It0

    Government agencies and researchers produce endless reams of statistics. While statistics can be valuable, they can be easily misrepresented. A 2017 study on the use of statistics in news characterized the problem as such: “The constant supply of data produced by think tanks, government agencies, independent researchers, academics and others is a significant and a

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  • Three Classic Reads That Are Still Relevant Today

    Three Classic Reads That Are Still Relevant Today0

    Summer is the best time to catch up on the reading that, for one reason or another, you haven’t had time to do the rest of the year. But instead of reading the average beach paperback, why not dig deeper and check out some classics from the past? Here are three that I believe to

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  • Three Cheers for the Industrial Revolution–and the Fossil Fuels that Drove it

    Three Cheers for the Industrial Revolution–and the Fossil Fuels that Drove it0

    In an article for CapX last week, I discussed Johan Norberg’s new book, Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future. As Norberg notes, over the last two centuries, humanity has made massive improvements in terms of nutrition, sanitation, life expectancy, poverty, violence, literacy, environmental quality, political freedom and child labor. Today, I want to discuss the role that

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  • Three Charts Showing How Childbearing Varies Across the US

    Three Charts Showing How Childbearing Varies Across the US0

    Falling U.S. fertility rates have been making headlines. These reports tend to focus on a single measure: the average number of children that women have, nationally. However, this one number masks large and interesting variation in people’s childbearing behavior. The National Survey of Family Growth – one of the best sources of information on this

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