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Professor: Relativism Destroying Our Esteem for Education 0
- Culture
- March 20, 2017
The education system gets a lot of flack these days: students are falling behind internationally; students don’t know history; students don’t know how to engage in rational discourse, and on it goes. But while these issues are very real and concerning, they are really only symptoms of a greater problem. In his 1956 essay, Education
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75 Years Later, Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics Need Updating 0
- Culture
- March 20, 2017
When science fiction author Isaac Asimov devised his Three Laws of Robotics he was thinking about androids. He envisioned a world where these human-like robots would act like servants and would need a set of programming rules to prevent them from causing harm. But in the 75 years since the publication of the first story
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The Pro-Art Case for Defunding the National Endowment for the Arts 0
- Culture
- March 20, 2017
President Trump has released his budget blueprint. From a big picture perspective, the size of government won’t change. He’s kicking the can down the road on entitlements, which is obviously disappointing for people who can add and subtract. He does cut some domestic programs, but taxpayers won’t reap the benefits since those savings will be
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How do you remember a rock god? The complicated legacy of Chuck Berry 0
- Culture
- March 20, 2017
The death of Chuck Berry over the weekend at the age of 90 has led to an outpouring of respect for a man widely recognised as one of the most important founding figures of rock and roll. His place in the music canon is undoubtedly deserved, and is likely to be enduring. Berry’s musical legacy
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Writer: We Have to Ditch Free Speech Because Trump Won 0
- Culture
- March 20, 2017
In a recent opinion piece in Slate, titled “The Kids are Right: There’s Nothing Outrageous about Stamping out Bigoted Speech,” Osita Nwanevu argues that in the age of Trump student activists should be permitted to dictate who speaks on college campuses. Shutting down speakers like Charles Murray at Middlebury College and Milo Yiannopoulos at UC
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New Poll Shows a Frightening Percentage of Americans Can’t Name a Single Supreme Court Justice (See Graph)0
- Education
- March 20, 2017
In advance of the Neil Gorsuch confirmation hearings being held in the Senate this week, C-Span decided it was time to pull out its recurring poll on American perception of the Supreme Court. Per usual, the questions asked opinions on the effectiveness of the Supreme Court, of its impact on everyday life, and how much
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Professor: Relativism Destroying Our Esteem for Education 0