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  • Welcome to the Chaos Stage of our Decline

    Welcome to the Chaos Stage of our Decline0

    Oddly enough, and despite the wretched news of another mass shooting right on the heels of several others, the latest reports from the Bureau of Justice Statistics indicate that gun violence is actually down. Statistically, we’re safer now than we were in the 1990s. Here are a couple highlights: Firearm-related homicides declined 39%, from 18,253

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  • A Warning about Islam from the Last Pope?

    A Warning about Islam from the Last Pope?0

    • July 26, 2016

    A large part of the controversy between Islam and the West boils down to scriptural hermeneutics.   “Scriptural hermeneutics” refers to the lens that a person, group, or religion uses to interpret their respective scriptures. Most Christians, for instance, hold to some sort of theory of “divine inspiration” in regard to how the Bible was

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  • Teacher: Students Crave Ethics Instruction

    Teacher: Students Crave Ethics Instruction0

    High school English teacher Paul Barnwell made two interesting observations yesterday in The Atlantic. The first was that his students have no moral compass. Barnwell discovered this when discussing various ethical issues with his class. His students were, he found, quite oblivious to internationally and historically accepted values of moral living. But perhaps such a

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  • Harvard Scientist Explains what Porn does to your Brain

    Harvard Scientist Explains what Porn does to your Brain3

    As we’ve previously noted, it’s difficult to get consistent answers on the alleged dangers of pornography. Scientific research on the subject varies widely. It’s safe to say that Kevin Majeres, a psychiatrist specializing in cognitive-behavioral therapy and a faculty member of Harvard Medical School, is among those who view pornography as harmful. Writing on the

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  • Expert Explains Why Many Educators Can’t Teach Math

    Expert Explains Why Many Educators Can’t Teach Math1

    U.S. high school students recently scored a huge victory when they won the 2016 International Math Olympiad. The team’s head coach attributed the U.S.’s increased standing in math to the many online elements of self-education that are now available to the enterprising young student. But what about the young students who don’t pursue online math

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  • Moral philosophy is not dead yet

    Moral philosophy is not dead yet0

    Last year, the ethicist Walter-Sinnot Armstrong asked whether philosophers were out of touch with, even contemptuous, of ordinary people and everyday life. The picture he paints isn’t flattering: Philosophers love to complain about bad reasoning. How can those other people commit such silly fallacies? Don’t they see how arbitrary and inconsistent their positions are? Aren’t

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