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  • London Grade School: “No TV or Tech… Not Even at Home.”

    London Grade School: “No TV or Tech… Not Even at Home.”0

    • September 29, 2015

    Did you ever have a parent or grandparent who regaled you with stories of life before television? In an era where almost everyone carries a tiny screened device in their pockets, such a life seems impossible to replicate, but one school in London has accepted the challenge. As The Guardian reports, the London Acorn School

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  • Logical Fallacies in the Gun Debate

    Logical Fallacies in the Gun Debate1

    In 2017, the data website FiveThirtyEight declared that the U.S. had become more polarized on the issue of guns that at any time in the nation’s history. Because of the emotional nature of the debate, both gun control advocates and Second Amendment proponents increasingly resorted to violent rhetoric (“burn her!”), conspiracy theories, and especially irrational

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  • Logic is More Important than Ever – So Why Don’t Schools Teach it Anymore?

    Logic is More Important than Ever – So Why Don’t Schools Teach it Anymore?2

    One of the great ironies of our age is that schools have stopped teaching logic in an age when it’s more necessary than ever. We live in a time defined by vast information, mass marketing, and propaganda. It’s been 70 years since Dorothy Sayers observed that by teaching young men and women to read but

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  • Lockdowns Do Not Slow COVID Spread, Three Studies Show

    Lockdowns Do Not Slow COVID Spread, Three Studies Show0

    Across America and Europe, many government officials are resuming lockdowns and tightening restrictions in the face of rising COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. The collateral damage of lockdowns, which has been well documented, includes widespread poverty, depression, bankruptcy, and unemployment. Meanwhile, the benefits of lockdowns remain murky. Several studies show there is little correlation between

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  • Lockdowns and Riots Have Horribly Abused Small Business Owners

    Lockdowns and Riots Have Horribly Abused Small Business Owners0

    For nearly 20 years, Bridget McGinty and her sister ran Tastebuds, a popular lunch spot in downtown Cleveland. On May 1, she made the torturous decision to close it forever after keeping it on life support for weeks after being closed due to the COVID-19 lockdowns. “There were just too many things against us,” McGinty

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  • Liz Harman and the ‘Schrödinger’s Baby’ Abortion Argument

    Liz Harman and the ‘Schrödinger’s Baby’ Abortion Argument0

    A couple of weeks ago, Princeton professor Liz Harman joined James Franco and Eliot Michaelson (whoever that is) to discuss the morality of early abortion.  The essence of her logically incoherent argument is that the morality of abortion depends on whether or not an abortion took place. More specifically, whether or not an “early fetus” has “moral

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