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  • How Sensitivity Killed Common Sense

    How Sensitivity Killed Common Sense0

    If you were to name one quality which has come to be highly sought after and demanded in today’s world, what would it be?  For my money, I would say that sensitivity fits the bill. As such, a white person who chooses to wear hoop earrings or style his hair in dreadlocks is guilty of

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  • This is What Happpens When You Introduce 4-Year-Olds to an Old People’s Home

    This is What Happpens When You Introduce 4-Year-Olds to an Old People’s Home0

    Lying on the floor pretending to roar like a lion can do wonders for an elderly man’s well-being. That’s not a scientific fact, but it was one of the surprising and memorable moments we observed while making a television program which introduced a group of very young people with residents of a retirement village. The

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  • What Trump Could Learn about Flattery from Reading Plutarch

    What Trump Could Learn about Flattery from Reading Plutarch0

    Nero may have fiddled while Rome burned, but it was the flattery of his courtiers that convinced the emperor he could get away with it. In his essay, “How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend,” the late Roman historian Plutarch gestures at Nero, speculating that if the emperor had known to silence his flatterers,

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  • Scholar: Many Schools Today Are ‘Indoctrination Centers’

    Scholar: Many Schools Today Are ‘Indoctrination Centers’4

    Here in my city, parents with privilege have many choices. They can send their children to progressive private schools with no grades and no tests, Montessori or Waldorf schools that each focus on a specific value system and learning philosophy, parochial schools, or traditional independent schools. They can also choose to send their children to

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  • Why Atheists Read the Bible Like Fundamentalists

    Why Atheists Read the Bible Like Fundamentalists3

    Benjamin Corey is a formerly fundamentalist Christian scholar who claims to have had some fruitful dialogue with atheists. Having examined the evidence, I agree with that claim. But he remains puzzled by a tendency I too have noticed: atheists often read the Bible just like fundamentalists! For instance, Corey has fun rebutting an atheist who

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  • Google Engineer Fired for Questioning Diversity in Memo—But Four Scientists Say He Was Right

    Google Engineer Fired for Questioning Diversity in Memo—But Four Scientists Say He Was Right0

    Google engineer James Damore had a Jerry Maguire moment. And he ended up exactly like Jerry Maguire.   Damore was fired by Google this week after his 10-page memo, titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” ignited a storm of criticism.   The memo, the text of which can be read here, suggested that biological differences could

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