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St. Patrick didn’t Drive Out the Snakes 0
- Culture
- March 17, 2016
A common myth that has persisted for 1,500 years is that St. Patrick drove out the snakes of Ireland. That is simply not the case. He did do a great many of things, but that is not one of them. A Treasury of Irish Folklore (1967) sheds some light upon a possible reason for the
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You Can’t Have Social Justice without Free Speech 0
- Culture
- March 17, 2016
Cases of college students demanding restrictions on free expression are making the news on a weekly basis. While much criticism has been directed at student calls for “trigger warnings,” “safe spaces,” and the “right not to be offended,” less has been said about the impetus behind this advocacy. If we assume the best of those
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Republican Establishment Fulfills Caricature of Itself 0
- Culture
- March 17, 2016
Long has the Republican establishment been equated with out-of-touch, country-club types by the popular culture. While the base of the Republican party hardly comes close to such a demographic, a new clip from Showtimes “The Circus” might reveal that the popular caricature is more accurate than the establishment might want to meet. It also reveals,
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5 Myths about Apprenticeships 0
- Culture
- March 17, 2016
It’s National Apprenticeship Week in England, and although the Brits are more accepting of the practice than the United States, they still deal with several misconceptions about apprenticeships. Five of these were recently addressed in The Guardian and are abbreviated below: Myth 1: Apprenticeship students are dumb failures. Fact: Instead of being high school dropouts,
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Are We at the Beginning of an Age of Barbarism?0
- History
- March 17, 2016
Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) was one of the most significant philosophers of history of the modern era. In his major work The New Science (1725), Vico famously outlined what he believed to be the recurring cycle of human civilizations (using Greece and Rome as his primary examples), and his outline of the three ages of this
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Despite Appearances, These Are Great Times for Human Liberty 0
- History
- March 17, 2016
Are you despairing of the presidential electoral trajectory? You are not alone. You are in the majority, one might even say the silent majority. A majority of voters in both major American political parties tell pollsters that they neither like nor trust the front runners for the nomination. This is true even in states where
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