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  • Should we model ourselves on Sir Mick Jagger?

    Should we model ourselves on Sir Mick Jagger?2

    For most of the time I live in a bubble of sanity, comfortably cushioned from the malaise that seems all consuming in the wider culture. Occasionally, however, I leave my comfortable bubble to travel to speaking engagements and conferences. When I do so, I’m struck by how bad things really are. This was brought home

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  • Should We Legalize Drugs?

    Should We Legalize Drugs?0

    That very question is being considered by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) – whose position is described as “key to changing government drug policies.” Yesterday, Virgin Group founder and billionaire Richard Branson leaked UNODC’s briefing paper on the matter entitled, “Deciminalisation of Drug Use and Possession for Personal Consumption.” The paper

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  • Should We Ditch Bike Helmet Laws?

    Should We Ditch Bike Helmet Laws?0

    In recent decades, Americans have witnessed a number of laws and regulations passed in the name of “safety.”    Thus, among other things, we now have bike helmet laws. Currently in the U.S., there are 22 states and 201 localities that mandate the wearing of helmets for bike riders (mostly for riders under the age

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  • Should We Clone a T-Rex?

    Should We Clone a T-Rex?0

    The unearthing of a pregnant, 68 million year-old Tyrannosaurus rex in Montana reportedly has the potential to yield the holy grail of paleontological discoveries: T-Rex DNA. The specimen, says North Carolina State University paleontologist Lindsay Zanno, contains medullary bone, a tissue that develops only in pregnant females near the creature’s egg-laying phase. The presence of

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  • Should We Care that Military History is Neglected in School?

    Should We Care that Military History is Neglected in School?0

    In his book Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child, Professor Anthony Esolen relays the following story of two homeschool brothers: “[They] got their hands on battle plans, pored over them, committed them to memory, and turned the basement into a battlefield. They drew out the woods and hills and rivers in chalk,

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  • Should We Be Teaching Philosophy in High School?

    Should We Be Teaching Philosophy in High School?0

    • October 2, 2015

    In the U.S., it’s commonly believed that philosophy is too complex for high school students. But in the history of the West, that’s actually a fairly recent notion, and not one universally held.    In ancient Greece, the specialized study of philosophy at a school like the famed Platonic Academy would not begin until about

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