There is a special drudgery to much of academic writing these days. If you think some of it is incomprehensible, it is. But to the writer and a select circle, you are too stupid to understand it. So which one is closer to the truth? Back in the 1990s, Denis Dutton, a respected philosopher out
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Are you tired? If the answer is yes, you’re likely not alone. The Washington Post recently reported that the average American gets about 1½ hours less sleep than the average American 50 years ago. Apparently, this lack of sleep has economic consequences: “Research out of Harvard has shown that, for the average worker, insomnia results
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The last paragraph of his renowned work After Virtue: “It is always dangerous to draw too precise parallels between one historical period and another; and among the most misleading of such parallels are those which have been drawn between our own age in Europe and North America and the epoch in which the Roman empire
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Rebecca Friedrichs had a rude awakening as a young student teacher. Concerned about the physically abusive teacher in the class next door, she asked her own master teacher what they should do about the abuse. The answer she got? “Nothing.” Finding that these children were in harm’s way because their teacher was protected by unions
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There was a hubbub in the Washington Post a while back over an Ohio woman’s refusal to mow her lawn. In defiance of her town’s ordinance, Sarah Baker let her lawn of nearly one acre go. Her arguments for neglecting to mow include the desire to have “a working ecosystem,” “to attract wildlife and build
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Like many school districts across the country, Virginia’s Fairfax County school district is struggling with budget shortfalls. Rather large budget shortfalls. As in $50 – $100 million budget shortfalls. Monday found the district trying to figure out where to make cuts: “A task force looking to cut as much as $100 million from the budget
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