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  • You Can’t Separate ‘Critical Thinking’ and Good Writing

    You Can’t Separate ‘Critical Thinking’ and Good Writing1

    One of the main things that today’s education system seeks to instill is “critical thinking.” But as progress in critical thinking is difficult to measure, how can we know if students are learning this valuable skill? The answer, I discovered, is simple: look at their writing skills. Such an idea was suggested in the early

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  • You Can’t Learn From a History That’s Been Deleted

    You Can’t Learn From a History That’s Been Deleted0

    The “memory hole” is one of the most haunting images in George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Used by government workers at the Ministry of Truth, this chute in the wall enabled Oceania’s one-party government to edit history at will and incinerate all evidence of their propagandistic deeds: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified,

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  • You Can’t Leave the U.S. Unless the IRS Lets You Now

    You Can’t Leave the U.S. Unless the IRS Lets You Now0

    When it comes to human migration, nearly everything we hear nowadays in relation to the United States and Europe is related to immigration into North America and Europe. Historically, however, governments have often been as concerned with emigration as they have been with immigration. This is not surprising since government have always attempted to “monopolize

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  • You Can’t Have Social Justice without Free Speech

    You Can’t Have Social Justice without Free Speech0

    Cases of college students demanding restrictions on free expression are making the news on a weekly basis. While much criticism has been directed at student calls for “trigger warnings,” “safe spaces,” and the “right not to be offended,” less has been said about the impetus behind this advocacy. If we assume the best of those

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  • You Can’t Deny that Venezuela is a Socialist Calamity

    You Can’t Deny that Venezuela is a Socialist Calamity0

    As Venezuela descends into a nightmare of starvation and violence, the long-standing debate over the feasibility of socialism takes on new relevance. Years of explicitly socialist policies from the Chavez and Maduro regimes have taken their toll, as nationalization and a variety of other attempts to abolish or subvert market processes have destroyed what was

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  • You Can’t Buy Simplicity

    You Can’t Buy Simplicity0

    Today’s simplicity movements are ostensibly a reaction against materialism. However, they can easily slip into materialism themselves. That’s the point David Brooks makes in his latest column for the New York Times entitled “The Evolution of Simplicity”: “One of the troublesome things about today’s simplicity movements is that they are often just alternate forms of

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