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  • The Solution to Poverty Isn’t Charity. It’s Opportunity

    The Solution to Poverty Isn’t Charity. It’s Opportunity0

    When we fall ill, our bodies give us symptoms to signal to our brains that trouble is afoot. A fever, for example, lets us know that our body is working in overdrive to fight off some sort of infection. While it may be causing us tremendous discomfort, we know that the fever itself is not the

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  • The Solution to Pandemic Learning Loss Is Less Schooling, Not More

    The Solution to Pandemic Learning Loss Is Less Schooling, Not More0

    The latest data dump from the Nation’s Report Card reveals declining academic performance among US students. As with previous releases showing the same trend, especially over the past three years, the solution proposed by many education reformers and advocates is to double-down on the amount of schooling and school-like activities students get.  “The greatest challenge

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  • The Sokal Affair: Why can’t academics write clearly?

    The Sokal Affair: Why can’t academics write clearly?0

    Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized. The above is an excerpt from philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s

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  • The Soft Nihilism of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’

    The Soft Nihilism of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’4

    In 1971, John Lennon asked us to imagine a world with “no heaven,” “no hell,” “no religion,” and “nothing to kill or die for.” Thirty-six years later, the piano on which he wrote that iconic anthem embarked on a “symbolic road trip for peace” that took it to sites of violence and persecution around the

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  • The Social Media Jam: Why Too Many Choices Leave Us Feeling Stuck

    The Social Media Jam: Why Too Many Choices Leave Us Feeling Stuck6

    There’s a famous experiment involving jams. Not problems, and not what old people call music, but the third thing: sweetened and thickened fruit spreads. The experiment famously showed that at some point having additional choices is overwhelming, and actually appears to make people worse off. There were actually three studies, though for some reason the “jam experiment” is

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  • The Social Justice Warriors’ Takeover of Newsrooms

    The Social Justice Warriors’ Takeover of Newsrooms0

    In the wake of the protests and riots that erupted following the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, a revealing transformation has been occurring in the country’s media landscape. This is now the message coming from the media: The narrative about how society should look at this incident shall remain in accordance

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