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  • The Top 20 Books Being Taught at Today’s Colleges

    The Top 20 Books Being Taught at Today’s Colleges0

    The Open Syllabus Project has collected over 1 million college syllabi, according to the New York Times. Analyzing that data, they have compiled a database of texts used in college classrooms and just how often they are used. The architects of the project hope their data will shed new light on “teaching, publishing and intellectual

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  • The Top 100 Hotels in the World

    The Top 100 Hotels in the World0

    Time magazine has a cool article breaking down the top 100 hotels in the world. Back when I was a magazine editor, I often received invitations for press trips which involved visits to great historic places – from the Alamo in San Antonio to Flanders Fields in Belgium to the Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond.

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  • The Top 10 Presidential Vetoes in American History

    The Top 10 Presidential Vetoes in American History0

    President James Garfield named his beloved dog Veto. The pooch was a monstrous but lovable black Newfoundland weighing more than a hundred pounds. Congress got the message: A bad or unconstitutional bill would go straight to the Garfield doghouse. (Sadly, none ever did because Garfield served only five months in office.) The veto itself is a

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  • The Top 1% Have 40% of America’s Wealth: Is This a Problem?

    The Top 1% Have 40% of America’s Wealth: Is This a Problem?0

    A 2017 study found that 66 percent of Democrats view economic inequality as a “very big” problem, and 93 percent believe it to be at least a “moderately big” problem. And it’s not just the public – politicians like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have frequently argued that the wealthy elite of society represent a

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  • The Toilet Paper Flagship: Creative Resistance to Pandemic Restrictions

    The Toilet Paper Flagship: Creative Resistance to Pandemic Restrictions0

    For over a year now, governments across the world have introduced and enforced a series of arbitrary restrictions on their citizens and their businesses, but not without a certain degree of pushback. Some small businesses in Germany have found a creative way to maneuver around the diktats of Chancellor Angela Merkel and other governmental leaders.

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  • The Thucydides Quote in ‘Wonder Woman’: Is it Legit?

    The Thucydides Quote in ‘Wonder Woman’: Is it Legit?0

    As readers know, I saw Wonder Woman with my children earlier this year. It’s a great movie—we’ve already purchased it on Apple TV—but something has been gnawing at me for a while. At one point in the movie, Gen. Ludendorff offers a rather dark take on human nature.   “Peace is only an armistice in

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