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Presidential Candidates Symptom of Educational Decline 0
- Culture
- June 6, 2016
Over the weekend, author and economist Ben Stein made some rather disparaging comments about the presidential candidates for both parties. In essence, Stein believes they are clueless when it comes to important issues, particularly economics. But the cluelessness doesn’t stop at the presidential candidates. According to Stein, the clueless candidates are simply a symptom of
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D-Day’s Greatest Hero: Agent Garbo 1
- History
- June 6, 2016
There were more heroes on D-Day than can be counted. The vast majority of them died long ago, their lives marked by little more than a stone cross at a quiet commune in northwestern France. Juan Pujol García—aka Agent Garbo—is one of the few heroes of D-Day whose story has been told. And though the
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Women Now Committing Adultery at the Same Rate as Men 0
- Culture
- June 6, 2016
It’s been five years since the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University published research showing that for the first time in modern history women were cheating at rates comparable to men. While some research since then has suggested that men still have a slight edge in the sexual straying department, it’s clear that at the very
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Why Can’t Employers Today Find Reliable Workers?0
- Culture
- June 3, 2016
In a tight job market, graduates need to do more than ever to make themselves stand out if they want to land a position. Fortunately, there’s a simple way to do this: read A Message to Garcia and take its advice to heart. I ran across this short essay while paging through a manual of
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Students Skeptical of Value of College Degrees 0
- Economics
- June 3, 2016
It’s graduation season and many high school seniors are counting the hours until they can walk across the stage and turn the corner toward college and career. But as a new survey out of the United Kingdom suggests, those graduates are likely to be less bright-eyed and full of hope than graduates before them. Many
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How TV’s Drip-Feed Destroys Your Mind 0
- Culture
- June 3, 2016
Many years ago, my wife and I decided to unplug ourselves from the prurience and propaganda piped into our homes via the television. It was one of the best decisions we ever made—and one of the most liberating. It freed us from hours of passive servitude to the soporific drip-feed of mind-numbing nonsense that passes
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