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  • WOW! Plato’s ‘Tyranny’ Sounds EXACTLY LIKE America Today!

    WOW! Plato’s ‘Tyranny’ Sounds EXACTLY LIKE America Today!0

    • September 27, 2016

    Philosopher George Santayana’s line has become cliché, but it’s so damn true: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Well, perhaps if more Americans today read Plato (like they used to), then our country wouldn’t be repeating the same mistakes he warned us about 2,400 years ago.   In Book VIII

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  • How Summer Camps and Scout Groups Turn Kids into Citizens

    How Summer Camps and Scout Groups Turn Kids into Citizens0

    The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has both proud supporters and critics of its policies on religious beliefs and sexuality. But for more than a century, the organisation has performed a distinct and vital social function. The BSA and other youth-camping associations developed in the early 20th century. They came to exist primarily as a

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  • How Emotionalism is Slowly Replacing Rationalism

    How Emotionalism is Slowly Replacing Rationalism1

    My hometown has recently been hit with a barrage of ads for the local high-end theatre’s production of Sense and Sensibility. Like all of Jane Austen’s works, the novel manages to marry everyone off, but only after bringing the characters through the harrowing ups and downs of uncertain romantic relationships. As I was reflecting on

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  • Thomas Jefferson’s 3 Tips for the Presidential Debate

    Thomas Jefferson’s 3 Tips for the Presidential Debate0

    If early reports are any indication, the first presidential debate of 2016 is shaping up to be the most watched – and probably most entertaining – in history. Recognizing this, the candidates are both taking the appropriate steps to be well-prepared. They might be wise to take a look at Thomas Jefferson’s simple tips for

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  • Why Do So Many People Lack Compassion?

    Why Do So Many People Lack Compassion?1

    Milan Kundera, in his beautiful novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, said that compassion was preeminent of all human sentiments. In languages derived from Latin, the word “compassion” is formed by combining the prefix “com” (with) and the noun “passio” (suffering). Other languages use words with a slightly different meaning—“feeling” instead of suffering. This, Kundera

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  • Was Plato Liberal or Totalitarian?

    Was Plato Liberal or Totalitarian?0

    No one reading Plato’s work Republic is likely to come away seeing it as a manifesto for libertarianism. However, it’s common to hear people claim that it is a blueprint for totalitarian collectivism, as, for example, FEE past president Richard Ebeling wrote in his September 23, 2016 column. Plato isn’t even engaged in utopian political

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