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  • How the Great Books Are Revolutionizing College Admissions Tests

    How the Great Books Are Revolutionizing College Admissions Tests0

    You may remember taking the SAT or the ACT. Hours and hours of memorizing techniques and tricks, all to get that perfect score to unlock your college dreams. These tests have monopolized the college entrance process, and in recent years—in the case of the SAT in particular—have been tied to the controversial Common Core standards.

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  • Did the Catholic Church Invent Propaganda?

    Did the Catholic Church Invent Propaganda?0

    “The Church created propaganda.” This is the charge leveled by French philosopher and sociologist Jacques Ellul in his 1964 book The Technological Society, which now has the infamous distinction of being Unabomber Ted Kaczynski’s favorite book. Is the charge true? Yes and no. As you might expect, propaganda has been used in one form or another

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  • Fear and Mass Surveillance: Our Constitutionally Toxic Political Cocktail

    Fear and Mass Surveillance: Our Constitutionally Toxic Political Cocktail0

    • January 18, 2018

    At 12:51pm on January 18, 2018–just a day before it was set to expire–the Senate followed the House’s lead and reauthorized the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act (FAA) Section 702 mass surveillance program for another six years by a vote of 65-34. Writing for JustSecurity.org in October 2017, I made this prediction about the then-looming

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