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Why Colleges Should Drop Racial Preferences 0
- Culture
- October 14, 2016
The Gallup Organization and Inside Higher Ed co-hosted a conference in Washington on September 15. They called it “Not Out of the Woods: Colleges, Diversity and Affirmative Action after a Year of Protest and Court Battles.” Most of those in attendance were university officials of one kind or another. I was the sole participant who
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Academic Research is in Danger of Becoming a Joke 0
- Education
- October 14, 2016
What do a gay man expressing his voyeuristic fantasies about intercourse with Dominican sex workers, Pumpkin Spiced Lattés demonstrating inherent White Supremacy, a doctoral thesis on ethical implications of ghosts and scary stories on the internet, and the need for a Feminist epistemology of glaciers have in common? They’re all the topics of academic papers
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What Meditation Can Do For Your Brain 0
- Family
- October 14, 2016
Can meditation grow your brain, make you more compassionate, and slow the aging process? Sounds too crazy to believe, right? Like most, I tended to look at the supposed positive effects of meditation as, at best, a tree-hugger’s wishful thinking, or, at worst, utter poppycock. But recent studies are making me question my dismissal of
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Holocaust Survivor Warns How Societies Make Monsters 0
- Education
- October 14, 2016
Have you ever wondered how man sank so low as to allow and even enable horrific historical events such as the Holocaust? I recently ran across one answer to that question expressed by a man who endured the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps firsthand. The man, Viktor Frankl, was a rising Austrian psychiatrist when
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Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and the Death of Human Dignity 0
- Culture
- October 14, 2016
So much has been said and written about the present Presidential election campaign that many of us are no doubt feeling overloaded with unwanted and ill-tempered debate and are suffering from political-spin-fatigue. This being so, I have no desire to add to the political overload nor do I intend to descend to the sewers and
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Is the UN Sweeping Israel’s History Under the Rug?0
- Culture
- October 14, 2016
Israel and the UN have not been what one could call “chummy” in recent history. And they’re not likely to grow any closer after today, either. According to the BBC, UNESCO, the self-proclaimed “‘intellectual’ agency of the United Nations” released a statement on Jerusalem’s premiere piece of real estate “known to Jews as the Temple
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