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Companies Want to Teach Your Children Values 0
- Culture
- March 28, 2017
About ten years ago Dove released a short film with the slogan “talk to your daughter before the beauty industry does”. It warned of the detrimental effects of unrealistic body image expectations communicated to young girls through advertisements. Reading this article in The Atlantic, I couldn’t help but agree that in recent times advertisers have even
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Teaching Chess to Kids Spurs Academic Achievement 0
- Education
- March 28, 2017
Over the weekend, 60 Minutes featured an unusual story about the small, backwoods area of Franklin County, Mississippi. Like much of Mississippi, Franklin County isn’t exactly known for its wealth or educational excellence. But that may be changing, particularly in regards to the latter, thanks to a man known as Dr. Jeff Bulington. According to
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Milton Friedman on ‘the Major Fault of the Collectivist Philosophy’0
- Economics
- March 28, 2017
Economist and University of Chicago professor Milton Friedman (1912 – 2006) spent more than 30 years teaching, and won the Nobel Prize in 1976 for his contributions in the field of economics. He was also one of the first intellectuals to see cracks forming in 20th-century collectivism. In his 1951 essay “Neo-Liberalism and its Prospects,”
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Steve Bannon: Not a Fan of Limited Government 0
- Economics
- March 28, 2017
Writing in The New York Times Magazine about last week’s stillborn RyanCare bill, Robert Draper recalls a conversation he had with White House strategist Stephen Bannon earlier this year. Bannon, lamenting the ability of both congressional Democrats and Republicans to get things done, contrasts the identity-obsessed progressives with the one-trick pony conservatives: What’s that Dostoyevsky line: Happy families
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Surgeons in Canada are Harvesting Organs from Euthanised Patients 0
- Culture
- March 28, 2017
Taking advantage of the country’s new law, Canadian transplant surgeons have harvested organs from dozens of euthanasia patients. According to the National Post, 26 people in Ontario who died by lethal injection have donated tissue or organs. This involved mostly corneas, skin, heart valves, bones and tendons. The National Post’s report only covered Ontario. Bioethicists,
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3 Ways to Spot an Ideologue 1
- Philosophy
- March 28, 2017
In 1960, Daniel Bell’s book The End of Ideology was published. In it, he declared what “sensible” people like himself already knew: Ideological commitments are mere barriers to social progress. Incremental improvements in technology, entrepreneurship and new methods of governance, not endless debates between capitalists and socialists, liberals and conservatives, fascists and communists, would mark
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