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  • 10 Truth-Bombs Courtesy of Milton Friedman

    10 Truth-Bombs Courtesy of Milton Friedman0

    American economist Milton Friedman rose to prominence in the second half of the 20th century as one of the leading critics of the prevailing economic theories of John Maynard Keynes, whose mixed economy model became the standard for many developed nations during and after the World War II-era. Born in Brooklyn to a Jewish family

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  • Solzhenitsyn: ‘The next war may well bury Western civilization forever’

    Solzhenitsyn: ‘The next war may well bury Western civilization forever’2

    In 1978, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was invited to give the commencement address at Harvard University. What he offered to the students and faculty some forty years ago was not your typical graduation speech filled with banal platitudes. Instead—in a perhaps unsurprising move for a Russian who spent 11 years in labor camps and exile—he offered them

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  • Skyrocketing College Costs Spur Education Alternatives

    Skyrocketing College Costs Spur Education Alternatives0

    Recently several Intellectual Takeout team members attended an appointment at a university in the Twin Cities. While walking across campus, the subject of high college costs came up. According to one member of our group, annual tuition at his alma mater has nearly doubled in the handful of years since he attended. And his experience

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  • Science has next to nothing to say about moral intuitions

    Science has next to nothing to say about moral intuitions0

    For centuries, philosophers have been using moral intuitions to reason about ethics. Today, some scientists think they’ve found a way to use psychology and neuroscience to undermine many of these intuitions and advance better moral arguments of their own. If these scientists are right, philosophers need to leave the armchair and head to the lab

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  • Are Schools Replacing Parents?

    Are Schools Replacing Parents?0

    The last few years have seen a good deal of conversation on education standards, spawned in large part by the arrival of Common Core. But according to the education site Chalkbeat, some states are instituting standards in far more than reading and math: “Tennessee will spend the next year on the task as one of

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  • California Overhauls its K-12 History Curricula

    California Overhauls its K-12 History Curricula0

    When it comes to education, summer is normally a downtime of rest and relaxation. That’s not the case, however, for California’s Department of Education. According to The Sacramento Bee, the state just released their newly rewritten history standards – standards which will likely be adopted by many of the other 49 states. So what exactly

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