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Beware the Sombreros of March 0
- Culture
- March 7, 2016
When does a hat become a battleground? When you’re trying to have good, clean fun on a politically-correct campus, that’s when. Last week, reports Catherine Rampell in the Washington Post, two members of Bowdoin College’s student government faced “impeachment proceedings” to be conducted over the weekend: “What heinous transgression did they commit? Theft, plagiarism, sexual
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61% of Americans believe Immigration Jeopardizes the Country?0
- Culture
- March 7, 2016
Bloomberg Businessweek got its hands on a poll conducted for the management consulting firm A.T. Kearney ahead of the public release that claims, “sixty-one percent of Americans agree that ‘continued immigration into the country jeopardizes the United States.’” Unfortunately, we can’t see the polling data or cross tabs to actually judge the merits of the
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The True Culprit behind Standardized Tests 0
- Education
- March 7, 2016
If there’s one thing that has united teachers, unions, and parents in the last several years, it’s a hatred of standardized tests. Such tests, opponents complain, cause undue stress to teachers and students and inhibit learning in any number of ways. Given these concerns and frustrations, it’s understandable why parents would want their children to
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BBC Headline: ‘Teaching migrants how to behave’0
- Culture
- March 7, 2016
While we’ve already noted that Norway is having to teach its Muslim migrants that it is not okay to rape women, it’s worth pointing out that Finland is also having to do the same. Thus, the BBC headline. As the BBC reports: “Migrants arriving in Finland are being offered classes on Finnish values and how
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Plato’s Problem with Loving Yourself 0
- Culture
- March 7, 2016
Arguably these days, there’s a lot of self-love going on. Indeed, isn’t that the point of almost all marketing campaigns. Our culture is awash in the love of self. Unfortunately, that’s not necessarily a good thing even for the self. In volume 4 of The Dialogues, Plato argues, “The greatest evil to men, generally, is
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So You Believe There’s Right and Wrong… But Why?0
- Philosophy
- March 5, 2016
Unless you’re a moral relativist, you believe that there are right and wrong actions. But there then remains the question: why do you believe that some actions are right while others are wrong? When it comes to answering it, you most likely adhere to either a “teleological” or “deontological” theory of morals. For the sake
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Beware the Sombreros of March 0