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United Airlines Was Right to Remove a Belligerent Passenger 0
- Culture
- April 12, 2017
Anyone asked to leave an overbooked flight for which they purchased a ticket would be justifiably annoyed. They have somewhere they need to be, and it wasn’t their fault United Airlines screwed up. So when a passenger on United Airlines flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville was randomly chosen to be removed, he was right
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Most Scientific Studies Today Are ‘Fake Science’2
- April 12, 2017
We’ve all heard the expression “According to research…” followed by some scientific finding that we are expected, given this prefatory expression, to accept without question. But as it turns out, even in a field as supposedly objective as biomedicine, reliability and validity are sorely wanting. In a recent Wall Street Journal article, science writer Richard Harris bemoans
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How Lazy Millennials Are Hurting Whole Foods 0
- Culture
- April 12, 2017
I drove by the new Whole Foods grocery store in my community the other day. It’s big, it’s hip-looking, and it offers much better parking than its former location. But according to a recent Washington Post article, the perks of this new store may be costing Whole Foods more than they would have liked. In
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How a Campus Kangaroo Court Drove One Student to Suicide 0
- Education
- April 12, 2017
In May 2016, Thomas Klocke, a student at the University of Texas at Arlington, was accused of sexual misconduct. According to reports, the accusations stemmed from an interaction Klocke had with a gay student during class, in which Klocke allegedly used a gay slur. Klocke, who vehemently denied the accusations, was formally charged with violating
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The Reason Border Arrests Are Plummeting 0
- Culture
- April 12, 2017
The month of March brought with it the lowest number of apprehensions along the U.S. southern border since at least the year 2000. This decrease can be credited to the strict enforcement policies that have been put in place since President Donald Trump took office, coupled with the now-credible threat of deportation that illegal immigrants
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Democracy Needs Aristocracy 0
- Culture
- April 12, 2017
Seneca, the Roman philosopher, relates the story of the murder of Callisthenes by Alexander the Great, the “everlasting crime” of the Macedonian leader. Seneca wrote: “For when someone says, ‘Alexander killed many thousands of Persians’ the countering reply to him will be: ‘And Callisthenes too’. Whenever it is said: ‘Alexander killed Darius, who had the
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United Airlines Was Right to Remove a Belligerent Passenger 0