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  • Don’t Be So Fast to Dismiss IQ Tests

    Don’t Be So Fast to Dismiss IQ Tests0

    ‘IQ tests just measure how good you are at doing IQ tests.’ This is the argument that is almost always made when intelligence-testing is mentioned. It’s often promoted by people who are, otherwise, highly scientifically literate. You wouldn’t catch them arguing that climate change is a myth or that vaccines might cause autism. But saying

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  • Maybe America Was Never ‘Great’?

    Maybe America Was Never ‘Great’?0

    By now all of you have heard or seen Trump’s slogan of “Make America Great Again.” The slogan is a timely attempt to rally the still-patriotic contingent of U.S. citizens who hold to some level of American exceptionalism. But since first hearing the slogan I’ve had a nagging thought lingering in my head: Maybe America

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  • Why America Shouldn’t Make College ‘Free’

    Why America Shouldn’t Make College ‘Free’1

    How often are we told by our friends on the left that America ought to follow the lead of Europe, specifically western Europe, and make college “free”? Pretty often, by my reckoning. In the waning years of my community college teaching days a student raised that very matter on the first day of class. Obviously,

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  • The Problem With America’s Legal System

    The Problem With America’s Legal System0

    The political culture is buzzing with controversy surrounding institutional racism, police brutality, victimless crime persecution, and so forth. People are talking about the desperate need for criminal justice reform. But that would only scratch the surface of the real problem. A more fundamental take begins with the tragedy of the commons. The tragedy of the

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  • When Finance and Philosophy Clash

    When Finance and Philosophy Clash0

    Few people in our materialistic and avaricious age would consider making money a moral issue. Isn’t it merely one of the bare necessities of life? We speak of a “healthy profit” but nobody speaks about an unhealthy profit. To do so would be absurd, wouldn’t it? Not if you listen to some of the great

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  • Political Science Needs More Viewpoint Diversity

    Political Science Needs More Viewpoint Diversity0

    Would academic political science benefit from more viewpoint diversity? Let’s start with the good news, which is that political science isn’t nearly the worst-off discipline on campus. This is not because its intellectual demographics are so great. Surveys, such as this one, of faculty members’ voter registration data suggest that poli sci does not contain nearly as

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