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  • The Secret Purpose of Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’

    The Secret Purpose of Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’2

    The most common view today of 15th-century Florentine philosopher-statesman Niccolò Machiavelli is that he was evil. Dubbed the founder of modern political philosophy, his evil reputation comes from his most famous work, The Prince, which openly endorses treachery, deceit, and backstabbing as political tactics. So, it’s no wonder that most people’s idea of Machiavelli is

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  • The Secret Lives of Robopets

    The Secret Lives of Robopets0

    There has been a great disturbance in the force, like a million chirpy robot voices crying out for owners. In every day terms, we are facing what Wired terms “the second coming of robot pets.” This surge in companion robots is exemplified in a cutesy little bot called Kiki, whose appeal (beyond being utterly adorable)

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  • The Secret Curriculum

    The Secret Curriculum12

    School is starting, but don’t count on getting answers about what your child is being taught. School administrators commonly lie or give parents the runaround. That explains the fireworks over Jeremy Boland, a Greenwich, Connecticut, elementary school assistant principal, bragging about how the school pushes kids to think in a “progressive” way that he hopes

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  • The Second Amendment Was Made for Coronavirus

    The Second Amendment Was Made for Coronavirus0

    With panicked consumers emptying store shelves around the country, and shoppers in at least one city fighting over toilet paper, the coronavirus pandemic seems just a short distance from coronavirus pandemonium. The panic comes at a time when many police departments, to reduce spread of the virus, have curtailed arrests and are releasing certain criminals

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  • The Sea Change of Declining Birth Rates

    The Sea Change of Declining Birth Rates2

    In the parish church I attend here in Front Royal, Virginia, out-of-town visitors are often surprised by the number of babies, children, and teens at any of the four Sunday services. Wiggling kids fill the pews, somewhere a baby is crying, and at the back of the church is a room reserved specifically for nursing

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  • The Science of Why People Don’t Listen to Facts

    The Science of Why People Don’t Listen to Facts0

    • April 19, 2017

    You know something is true—for example, that vaccines are good for children, or that socialism doesn’t work. You’ve done the research, you’ve carefully weighed the arguments against your position and found them wanting, and you’ve diligently formulated your own reasoned case for it.   And then you try to convince someone else (repeatedly, in some

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