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The Student Debt Clock is Ticking 0
- August 12, 2015
You’ve seen the National Debt Clock. At $18 trillion, it’s something we’d rather forget. But did you know that we have another pile of debt on our hands? It’s the student loan debt bomb, and it grows by $3,000 per second for a current debt measurement of nearly $1.3 trillion! What’s even more alarming
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Why Study Philosophy?0
- August 12, 2015
Some like philosophy because it makes their minds tingle. Others find answers to their questions. Still others like questions without answers. For Cicero, writing in the 1st century B.C. during the transition from Roman Republic to Roman Empire, the answer was much simpler: to be wise. As he writes in On Duties, “And wisdom, according
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Boys in White Dresses with Blue Satin Sashes?1
- Culture
- August 11, 2015
Last week, Bloomberg Business reported a new fashion trend for men: womenswear. “In January, Gucci’s menswear runway collection was an eye-opener. … It was because the men on the runway looked … like women. In fact, some of them were women—an increasing trend in menswear shows. Models of both genders—waifish male models and boyish female models alike—were
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The Way We Work Now 0
- August 11, 2015
Most Americans now work in white-collar and service industry jobs rather than in manual labor. Technological innovation and the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs overseas continues to reduce the need for blue collar workers. And gone are the days where many individuals earned their living through farming. Only 19% of Americans now live in rural areas,
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Dennis Miller: Enough with Superficial Apologies!0
- August 11, 2015
America is suffering from an acute case of “apologia logorrhea.” At least, that’s the diagnosis of comedian and political commentator Dennis Miller in yesterday’s IJ Review article entitled, “My Apologies…” In the article, Miller critiques the tiresome, ever-recurring pattern we’re subjected to in today’s media: public figure says something deemed offensive by some group, public
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The Past Deserves a Seat at the Table 0
- August 11, 2015
We live in an age that views itself as necessarily superior to the ages that preceded it. As such, it doesn’t have much use for history and the opinions of those who came before us. For many today, past tradition no longer serves as an authority. But the famous British author G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) believed
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