Professionally, Peter Gray is known for his prominent book on psychology and for his professorship at Boston College. To the general public, however, Gray is perhaps best known for his book Free to Learn, which argues that the institutional nature of schooling is killing the natural learning ability of our children. Gray’s views were once
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In chapter ten of The Road to Serfdom, “Why the Worst Get on Top,” Hayek continues to warn about the dangers of planned economies, but with a slightly different approach from earlier chapters. Stepping into new territory, here we see Hayek not only identifying economic problems but also discussing the very nature of power itself.
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Does the First Amendment allow the government to force a cake baker to make custom cakes in violation of his own conscience and religious beliefs? The answer is “no.” Our legal system must protect people like Jack Phillips, a cake artist and small business owner asserting a First Amendment defense against the Colorado Civil Rights
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Via the BBC: “A teacher is facing disciplinary action at his school after he referred to a transgender pupil as a girl, although the student identifies as a boy. Joshua Sutcliffe, a Christian pastor from Oxford, admitted he said “Well done girls” when addressing a group including the student. He described it as a “slip
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We have all been there. We’ve been slighted by the person we are speaking with as they reach for their smartphone to check a social media notification. This practice of snubbing is so common that in 2012, the Macquarie Dictionary helped to create the new word “phubbing” (a combination of phone and snubbing) to describe
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Washington, DC is currently in the middle of a the “tax reform” process, which as Jeff Deist, points out, is ” a con, and a shell game.” Tax reform proposals, Deist continues “always evade and obscure the real issue, which is the total cost — financial, compliance, and human — taxes impose on society.” Tax reform is really about which interest
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