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  • Theory-Induced Blindness: Why ‘Expert’ Predictions Are Wrong So Often

    Theory-Induced Blindness: Why ‘Expert’ Predictions Are Wrong So Often0

    Remember when Bill Kristol said the Iraq War would last two months? It (officially) lasted nine years and cost Americans more than $2 trillion—and we’re still there. How about when Kristol boldly stated that Barack Obama wouldn’t win a single primary against Hillary Clinton? Or when he claimed Iraq was “not in a civil war?” What about when he predicted that 1993

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  • Theologian: God Doesn’t Need Christians

    Theologian: God Doesn’t Need Christians0

    Last week I raised the question of whether or not the “feel good” approach to religion was leading to the steady decline of America’s churches. Such an approach attempts to bring hoards of people to church, making them comfortable in order to swell the ranks of those who follow God. Not surprisingly, a few readers

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  • The Zuckerberg Hearings Prove Government Shouldn’t Regulate Facebook

    The Zuckerberg Hearings Prove Government Shouldn’t Regulate Facebook0

    • April 16, 2018

    In the year 2018, at the height of the Russia Scare, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was hauled in front of a tribunal of tech-illiterate politicians and asked to explain himself. “It was my mistake, and I’m sorry,” Zuckerberg told senators who are upset about the company’s exploitation (and fumbling) of user data—which, unbeknownst to them,

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  • The Zone of Adulthood

    The Zone of Adulthood0

    Like some of you, I suffer from insomnia. Try as I might, sometimes I just can’t close the deal when I put head to pillow. It started in my teens; I would take a walk or swim in an effort to get tired out enough for sleep. But the passage of time has granted me

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  • The Zero-Tolerance Police Nab 5-Year-Old Girl

    The Zero-Tolerance Police Nab 5-Year-Old Girl0

    Chalk up another brilliant school suspension to the zero-tolerance police. The perpetrator this time? A 5-year-old with a *gasp* plastic bubble gun. A local news station reports: “The girl’s mother, who goes by Emma, said she was shocked when she got a call from the school telling her she needed to pick up her daughter and

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  • The Youth Mental Health Crisis: What Does It All Mean?

    The Youth Mental Health Crisis: What Does It All Mean?0

    New data on the mental health of American college students shows a somber trend. Rates of depression, anxiety, low flourishing, suicidal thinking, and suicidal attempts have all worsened over the years 2007 to 2018, according to research by Jean Twenge and colleagues, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health. And it’s not all down to more reporting.

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