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  • Who’s Avoiding Sex, and Why

    Who’s Avoiding Sex, and Why0

    Sex has a strong influence on many aspects of well-being: it is one of our most basic physiological needs. Sex feeds our identity and is a core element of our social life. But millions of people spend at least some of their adulthood not having sex. This sexual avoidance can result in emotional distress, shame

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  • Does Britain Have the World’s Best Health System?

    Does Britain Have the World’s Best Health System?0

    “The National Health Service is the closest thing the English have to a religion,” Margaret Thatcher’s Chancellor Nigel Lawson famously once observed. However, given the swivel-eyed fanaticism with which its supporters will defend it, even from the overwhelming evidence of its shortcomings, at this point it might be more accurate to describe the NHS as

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  • The ‘God of the Gaps’ Is Growing

    The ‘God of the Gaps’ Is Growing0

    The story of the god of the gaps ends like a bad dream. The scientist has scaled the mountains of ignorance, he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries… Atheists have a

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  • Oregon Wants to Defelonize All the Drugs

    Oregon Wants to Defelonize All the Drugs0

    Over the last several years, ending drug prohibition has steadily become an idea whose time has come. After spending decades and billions of tax dollars policing what individuals can and cannot put into their own bodies, the government has absolutely nothing to show for its “war on drugs,” aside from a swelling prison population. The

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  • Higher Wages Don’t Improve Teacher Quality, Left-Leaning Think Tank Finds

    Higher Wages Don’t Improve Teacher Quality, Left-Leaning Think Tank Finds0

    • July 24, 2017

    To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a teacher is the most important component of a child’s education. As a result of this acknowledgement, conventional wisdom seems to indicate that the way to attract and retain effective, high-quality teachers is through lucrative salaries. But surprisingly, that may not be the case.

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  • Media Ramp up Attack on PBS’s ‘School, Inc.’—And Blow It

    Media Ramp up Attack on PBS’s ‘School, Inc.’—And Blow It0

    Last month, I wrote about The Washington Post’s attack on the PBS documentary “School, Inc.”, produced by the late Andrew Coulson, former director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom. In a June Washington Post commentary launched by staunch public school advocate Diane Ravitch, “School, Inc.” is excoriated for presenting the successes of free-market

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