We see patterns where none exist. It’s what humans do; in fact, it’s what animals do. Mark Twain noticed this, and had a pithy summary. We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down
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The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) will now allow girls to join their well known Cub Scout program which will enable them to advance to the highest rank of Eagle Scout, according to a statement released Wednesday. The organization’s board of directors voted unanimously to make the historic change to the group that has been
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As our culture descends into confusion about gender, there’s more and more talk about changing our language to accommodate it. Unfortunately, if your language has to be brought into conformity with confused thinking, you end up with confused language. Jacques Barzun was one of the greatest humanities scholars of the twentieth century. In the book
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HuffPost reported recently on a project created by photographers and partners Sham Hinchey and Marzia Messina called “Dear Daughters,” in which 22 men posed for artsy portraits with their daughters, ages eight to eleven, and chatted informally but a little awkwardly, with them about feminism. As you might expect from HuffPost, a half-hour video of the process depicts
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There have been several hopeful signs coming out of the doom and gloom generation – also known as millennials – in the last few months which seem to signal that they may finally be growing up. The first sign can be seen in birth rates, which, although still behind those of other generations, continue to
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The University of Chicago’s Richard Thaler has been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in economics. Thaler is a leading practitioner of behavioral economics, the application of psychology to problems of valuation, choice, exchange, and pricing. Following Mises, most Austrian economists have distinguished sharply between praxeology, the logical analysis of action, and psychology, the behavioral motivations and
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