It’s amazing how relevant ancient works can be to modern life. Such is the case with Plato’s dialogue Gorgias?, which contains a very applicable warning about politicians. The Gorgias is a polemic against rhetoric—the art of speaking well and persuading others. Plato was not completely against rhetoric; he was okay with it if used “with
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Awful things took place in Cologne and other German cities over New Years. In Cologne alone, 1,000 men assaulted women to varying degrees, including rape. As the BBC reports: “City police chief Wolfgang Albers called it ‘a completely new dimension of crime’. The men were of Arab or North African appearance, he said.” Ah, yes,
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It’s not hard to find a child these days who has been diagnosed with ADHD. According to the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, the number of children labeled with the condition had risen to 11% by 2011. But a new medical article by Dr. Dimitri Christakis raises the question: are American adults
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With the holidays over and graduation fast approaching, many students are preparing for a final crack at the SAT. In light of this test preparation, it’s interesting to consider whether or not today’s students would be able to take one of the earliest SAT exams. Judging from the 1919 English Literature test from the College
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Market Watch recently reported that while employment is up, the number of people who can go any length of time without a paycheck is abysmally low. “Approximately 63% of Americans have no emergency savings for things such as a $1,000 emergency room visit or a $500 car repair, according to a survey released Wednesday of
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The ancient Greek thinker Plutarch (46-120 A.D.) is best known for his historical work Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans and his collection of essays entitled Moralia. This latter collection begins with a wonderful essay (or, at least, it’s attributed to him) on “The Education of Children.” I’ll discuss the rest of the essay
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