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  • Why More Colleges Are Turning a Blind Eye to Cheating

    Why More Colleges Are Turning a Blind Eye to Cheating0

    Imagine that you’re the president of a community college. To justify your institution’s existence and your enviable salary, you must convince the board of trustees that the institution is meeting—possibly even exceeding—certain productivity benchmarks: for instance, a threshold number of new enrolments, solid graduation rates and satisfactory retention of students from year to year. The

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  • Why moral education should involve moral philosophy

    Why moral education should involve moral philosophy1

    Ethics are increasingly a part of the school curriculum, and practical introductory classes in applied ethics are part of the training that nurses, scientists and soldiers undergo. Ethical education is ubiquitous, even though it may not always involve complicated theoretical debates – but should it include a dose of philosophy? There are powerful reasons for

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  • Why Modern Man Doesn’t Feel at Home

    Why Modern Man Doesn’t Feel at Home0

    The average American moves about 12 times in his life, changes jobs every 4.6 years, and commutes about 15 miles to work each way. In addition, the areas in which most of us live change dramatically and rapidly due to urbanization and development. According to philosopher Roger Scruton, this hyper-mobility is causing modern man to feel displaced: “[I]f we are

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  • Why Modern Education is Doomed to Die

    Why Modern Education is Doomed to Die0

    One of the great transitions in education in the past fifty years has been the increased emphasis on the so-called STEM subjects – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – and a corresponding diminishing of the place of the traditional liberal arts or humanities, especially literature, history and philosophy. This has been due in part to

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  • Why Modern America Might Have the Most Equality It Ever Had

    Why Modern America Might Have the Most Equality It Ever Had0

    • September 14, 2015

    We hear a lot about equality these days: equality in income, education, marriage, gender, race, class – the list could go on. Judging by many of the complaints which come from various interest groups, one would assume that the inequality of Americans is actually increasing as time goes on. But are things really that bad?

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  • Why MLK’s Vision of Love as a Moral Imperative Still Matters

    Why MLK’s Vision of Love as a Moral Imperative Still Matters0

    2017 was a year of increased conflict in the United States. Many diverse communities were forced to confront a range of challenges related to anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia and anti-immigrant feelings. These challenges strike at the heart of what it means to live in a multicultural, democratic society. Yet, it is not the first time America

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