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  • The Hidden Risk of Letting AI Decide – Losing the Skills to Choose for Ourselves

    The Hidden Risk of Letting AI Decide – Losing the Skills to Choose for Ourselves2

    As artificial intelligence creeps further into people’s daily lives, so do worries about it. At the most alarmist are concerns about AI going rogue and terminating its human masters. But behind the calls for a pause on the development of AI is a suite of more tangible social ills. Among them are the risks AI

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  • The Hidden Philosophical Message in ‘Gladiator’

    The Hidden Philosophical Message in ‘Gladiator’0

    In Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, the philosophical emperor Marcus Aurelius makes a wonderful appearance. In this poetic portrayal of the truths of history, Marcus Aurelius (played by Richard Harris) chooses the fictional Maximus as his true spiritual heir, because his errant son Commodus is not a man of virtue as his father is. The interesting question is

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  • The Hidden Financial Cost of Divorce Is No Joke

    The Hidden Financial Cost of Divorce Is No Joke0

    “June is bustin’ out all over,” the old Rodgers and Hammerstein song tells us, and escorting its arrival are dozens of weddings, for, as another old show tune explains, “Oh, they say when you marry in June / You’re a bride all your life. And the bridegroom who marries in June / Gets a sweetheart

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  • The Hidden Costs of Universal Preschool Programs

    The Hidden Costs of Universal Preschool Programs0

    New York City mayor, Bill de Blasio, announced last week his plan to expand universal, taxpayer-funded, full-day preschool to all 3-year-olds regardless of family income. This initiative, dubbed “3-K for All,” expands on de Blasio’s previous effort to offer universal preschool to all of the city’s 4-year-olds, a plan he called “Pre-K for All.” That plan now

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  • The Hidden Benefits of Homeschool (From a Homeschool Graduate)

    The Hidden Benefits of Homeschool (From a Homeschool Graduate)7

    These days, it’s almost common knowledge that homeschooled students have a better academic education, do better in college and careers, and are regarded as “smarter” than students from public schools. Homeschooling families typically gravitate toward this educational lifestyle to avoid the public school environment, to prioritize their faith and family values, to adjust to a

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  • The Heroism of Civilization

    The Heroism of Civilization1

    A long-held but somewhat flexible fantasy I have engaged in periodically since about middle school has me doing some truly unusual, heroic thing—perhaps pulling someone from a fire or heroically diving into the rapids to save some helpless person from drowning or even taking a bullet to protect a child. (I’m afraid of heights, so

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