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Why They’re Saying Donald Trump is a Fascist 0
- Politics
- December 8, 2015
It seems that figures on both the left and the right are increasingly applying a rather unsavory term to Donald Trump: “Fascist.” The term is notoriously ambiguous. Perhaps the most well-known attempt to describe fascism is novelist Umberto Eco’s 1995 essay “Ur-Fascism,” in which he lists 14 characteristics of it. In a column for Slate
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Parents Hiring Consultants to Find the Best Public Schools 0
- December 8, 2015
The public school system has become a minefield that’s increasingly difficult for parents and students to navigate. So difficult, in fact, that New York parents are hiring consultants to tell them which neighborhoods are the best to live in, and which waiting lists they should join in order to get their child into a high-performing
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A Date which will Live in Infamy 0
- History
- December 7, 2015
74 years ago today, the Japanese launched a surprise attack against the United States at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The devastation was immense, but the action did not knock the United States out of the war as the Japanese hoped. Here is President Roosevelt’s complete speech to Congress requesting a declaration of war. It includes
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10 Noam Chomsky Quotes That Reach Across the Political Aisle 0
- Culture
- December 7, 2015
1. “If we don’t believe in free expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” 2. “Mass education was designed to turn independent farmers into docile, passive tools of production. That was its primary purpose. And don’t think people didn’t know it. They knew it and they fought against it. There was
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Is the U.S. an “Artificial Union”?0
- History
- December 4, 2015
Over 1,500 years ago, St. Augustine wrote his De Civitate Dei (“The City of God”) as the Roman Empire was on the verge of eventually falling to Odoacer in 476 A.D. In Book 19 of it, Augustine famously defined a society or “people” as a “multitude of rational creatures associated in a common agreement as
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Problem: 21% of Parents Don’t Require Their Kids to Do Chores 0
- Culture
- December 4, 2015
Ever feel like a meanie by requiring your kids to help with family chores, such as folding laundry or washing dishes? You shouldn’t, because as Time Magazine reports, children whose parents require them to do chores are likely to be more successful in life. Reporting on a recent survey from Funifi, TIME notes the ups
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