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Fertility is Plummeting Worldwide 0
- Culture
- June 29, 2016
A few months ago, the Pew Research Center presented some data that on the surface appeared to be very good news. The teen birth rate had reached a historic low. The teen birth rate in the U.S. is at a record low, dropping below 25 births per 1,000 teen females for the first time since
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America’s Decline of Knowledge: Where Will it Lead?3
- Culture
- June 29, 2016
The Atlantic recently ran an article suggesting that many college students are earning business degrees in order to gain the hands-on skills they’ll need to land a job. But in the process of focusing on those hands-on business skills, The Atlantic also expressed concern that students may be missing out on learning the “writing or
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Literature Quiz: Popular Novels 29
- Education
- June 28, 2016
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Our Culture’s Love Affair With Self-Delusion 0
- Culture
- June 28, 2016
What better example of the Zeitgeist of transgenderism can there be than Florence Foster Jenkins, starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant? So powerful a theme is it that the French have released what is very nearly the same movie but, bien sûr en français, Marguerite. Both of them have been rapturously received by the critics.
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Top 10 Books Taught in College Philosophy Courses 0
- Education
- June 28, 2016
For most of Western history, philosophy held a place of the highest honor in education. Studies in philosophy would begin at about age 15 and continue through age 18… and beyond for those who chose to specialize in the subject. America’s schools more or less followed this same pattern of philosophical studies until toward the
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Why Pediatricians are now Treating 35 Year Olds 0
- Culture
- June 28, 2016
It’s no secret that young adults these days are having a hard time growing up. The latest example of this phenomenon? Young people are having a hard time leaving their childhood doctors. The New York Times explains how 26-year-old Lule Rault regularly sees her pediatrician and intends to continue doing so until she finishes her
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