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Edward Snowden Welcomes Trump Press Secretary with Blistering Tweet 0
- Politics
- January 24, 2017
If you thought Edward Snowden was going to play nice with the Trump White House in hopes of receiving a pardon, you were sorely mistaken. In case you missed it, the new White House is finding itself on the losing end of a petty squabble with the press regarding the size of, ahem, Trump’s inauguration
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Business Prodigy: College ‘Biggest Regret in Life’0
- Culture
- January 24, 2017
Neil Patel is only 32 years old, but he has already founded three companies and received numerous recognitions, including making President Obama’s list of top 100 entrepreneurs under 30. Naturally, Patel’s success makes him a prime candidate to learn from. In a recent edition of Forbes, Patel bluntly states that he didn’t learn the one
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What We’re In For with Trump 0
- Economics
- January 23, 2017
I happened to catch most of Trump’s conference with business leaders this morning over breakfast. Here are my thoughts. If I’m being a typical Midwesterner/Rust Belter on this, apologies in advance; I can’t help where I’m from. Trump’s speech can be divided into four parts of roughly equal size. 25% of the things he said
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The 4 Horsemen of the Philosophical Apocalypse 0
- Education
- January 23, 2017
Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977) was the dean of Yale Law School, the president of the University of Chicago, and one of the more influential philosophers of education in the 20th century. In a stirring passage from a series of lectures he gave in 1951, Hutchins identified four intellectual trends that had been absolutely disastrous for
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Study: Immaturity Being Mislabeled as ‘Mental Disorder’0
- Culture
- January 23, 2017
Once upon a time – not so very long ago – a diagnosis of ADHD and its subsequent treatment with prescription drugs was accepted without much question. After all, the experts know best, right? But as the number of ADHD diagnoses have increased, parents, doctors, and even scientific studies seem to be questioning the wisdom
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Should Mothers Be Paid to Stay Home?0
- Culture
- January 23, 2017
An editorial from The New Zealand Herald this month states that a proposal to pay New Zealand stay-at-home mothers has merit, commenting: “many parents who return to paid careers when their child is still very young cite financial necessity. It would be interesting to see what their decisions would be if it were possible to
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