Thanks to a demand from the Justice Department last year, the public will soon lose access to thousands of college lectures. Inside Higher Ed reports that the University of California, Berkeley will “cut off public access to tens of thousands of video lectures and podcasts in response to a U.S. Justice Department order that it make
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In 2010 Steve Jobs created a bit of a sensation when he decided to ban from Apple devices any app that was deemed pornographic in nature. “Folks who want porn can buy an android,” Jobs famously wrote to one customer. So what did Jobs have against porn? Walter Isaacson, in his highly impressive 2011
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“While we were distracted by Trump, Republicans advanced these 9 terrifying bills.” That was the headline from March 4th’s Resistance Report, a left-leaning news site. One of the so-called “terrifying bills” is House Bill 610, which would establish a federally-funded education voucher program. For eligible families, it would provide parents with funds so they can
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For more than 100 years the United States has looked to prohibition to curtail the use of drugs. Proponents argue that by making substances like marijuana, cocaine and heroin illegal, government can significantly reduce drug-related crime, prevent addiction and stop the spread of drug-related disease. The results have been less than impressive. In fact, Michael
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Jesse Bright was driving Uber when he was pulled over by Wilmington, N.C., police officers, who arrested the passenger he was driving. When police asked to search Bright’s vehicle, he politely declined and informed officers he was recording the stop. Police didn’t seem to like that. They demanded Bright stop recording, and when he refused
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In his famous essay on fairy stories, J. R. R. Tolkien asserted that one of the most important facets of fairytales is that they hold up a “Mirror of scorn and pity towards Man”. The fairy story, Tolkien wrote, “may be used as a Mirour de l’Omme” (mirror of man), as something that shows us
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