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  • Should Homeschoolers Be Allowed to Play Public School Sports?

    Should Homeschoolers Be Allowed to Play Public School Sports?0

    Years ago, I was privy to an instance where a young, middle school girl was encouraged to join the swim team at her local neighborhood school. There was only one problem. The girl was homeschooled, a status which made her automatically ineligible to join the team and participate in the sport.  But times have changed,

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  • Should Hikers Pay for Their Own Rescue?

    Should Hikers Pay for Their Own Rescue?0

    If a hiker gets lost in the wilderness, should she bear the costs of her own rescue?  The recent ordeal of a woman lost in a Maui forest for seventeen days brings this issue once again to public attention. State-funded rescue operations were called off after three days of effort because of the expense, but

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  • Should Female Chess Champions Be Forced to Wear a Hijab?

    Should Female Chess Champions Be Forced to Wear a Hijab?0

    About a year ago, I wrote about my interest in learning to play chess. This interest came about after reading Ben Franklin’s arguments on the skills the sport builds, including foresight, caution, and perseverance. Had I learned to play last year, I undoubtedly would have soared to the top and been eligible for next year’s

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  • Should Everyone Go to College?

    Should Everyone Go to College?3

    The call for college to be made “free” to all who want it rests on a number of assumptions, most of them self-serving, some of them well-founded, and at least one that goes to the heart of our cultural, political, and economic ills as a nation. The most important self-serving assumption is that education, like

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  • Should ethics professors have to behave ethically?

    Should ethics professors have to behave ethically?0

    This is an enduring dilemma in the area of ethics and one that has recently come to light with charges of unethical behavior brought against a prominent philosopher, Professor Thomas Pogge of Yale University. Pogge has been accused of manipulating younger women in his field into sexual relationships, a charge he has strenuously denied. Without making any judgment on

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  • Should Couples Have More Children?

    Should Couples Have More Children?0

    • September 25, 2015

    A newly released study entitled the “World Family Map 2015” presents a number of interesting facts on the state of the family worldwide. One of these facts focuses on the average number of children per family in various countries. What’s interesting is how many developed nations barely have enough children to replace their current population,

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