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  • Social Security Has Not Been “Looted”

    Social Security Has Not Been “Looted”0

    The newly released Social Security Trustees Report describes serious fiscal issues with the program and stresses that it should be reformed soon, or the situation will become much worse. However, public support for reform is impeded by a common fiction that inflames debate and distracts from the roots of the problem. What the Report Says

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  • Social Psychology Suggests ‘March for Our Lives’ Is Unlikely to Change Anything. Here’s Why.

    Social Psychology Suggests ‘March for Our Lives’ Is Unlikely to Change Anything. Here’s Why.0

    Like many recent political movements, March for Our Lives was marked with grandstanding, emotional appeals and the moral outrage that have come to define modern political protests. The mainstream media promises, however, that “this time, it’s different,” and this march for gun control (let’s be honest about its intentions) will change America and eventually end

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  • Social Promotion in U.S. High Schools Reaches an All-Time High!

    Social Promotion in U.S. High Schools Reaches an All-Time High!0

    There is much rejoicing in recent headlines, for the U.S. high school graduation rate has reached a new high. NPR reports: “For the fourth straight year, the U.S. high school graduation rate has improved to an all-time high of 82 percent in the 2013-2014 school year, the Department of Education announced today. Achievement gaps have

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  • Social Justice: When good becomes evil?

    Social Justice: When good becomes evil?0

    Traditionally in the West, Justice was defined as, “To give to each his due.” Western men were expected to judge the individual and his actions against what were then considered objective truths. For anyone watching the culture these days, especially on college campuses, it should be clear that that’s no longer the accepted understanding of

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  • Social Justice Is at Odds with American Ideas of Justice

    Social Justice Is at Odds with American Ideas of Justice0

    What is justice? This complicated question is the subject of much study by philosophers, lawyers, clergy, and laymen. It is often easier to determine the metes and bounds of justice from what it is not than to define what it is in the abstract. Unfair procedures, treating the rich differently from the poor, racial discrimination,

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  • Social Justice is ‘Fake Scholarship,’ Oxford Philosopher Says

    Social Justice is ‘Fake Scholarship,’ Oxford Philosopher Says2

    Sir Roger Vernon Scruton, an English philosopher and writer who specializes in political philosophy and aesthetics, said social justice is changing the very nature of scholarship—and not for the better.    “The academy has been invaded by a new form of study,” says Scruton, a senior research fellow at Oxford University, in a recently published

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