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  • 5 Quotes from Harriet Tubman, the New Face of the $20 Bill

    5 Quotes from Harriet Tubman, the New Face of the $20 Bill0

    As you may have heard, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew just announced his decision to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. Regardless of your view on the change, one has to admit that Tubman was a remarkable woman. Because Tubman could not read or write, her story was first officially recorded in 1869 by Sarah

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  • Tocqueville: How Individualism is a Sign of Equality

    Tocqueville: How Individualism is a Sign of Equality0

    When it comes to an emphasis on the individual, Americans lead the pack. That’s according to a Pew Research report which compared American and European sentiments on various democratic principles. Interestingly, Alexis de Tocqueville described this same tendency toward individualism nearly 200 years ago in his work Democracy in America. Individualism, Tocqueville observed, is a

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  • The Decline of Neighborliness

    The Decline of Neighborliness0

    It seems no amount of time passes without a headline about some couple (usually believers in the free-range-parenting movement) getting arrested and having their children taken away for perceived neglect. The case of Danielle and Alexander Meitiv of Maryland received national media attention for an incident in December of 2014 in which they allowed their

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  • Should Institutions Continue to Make Reparations for Slavery?

    Should Institutions Continue to Make Reparations for Slavery?0

    What do you do if you’re a contemporary institution realizing that it owes its very existence to having once profited from chattel slavery? A long and rich story in last Saturday’s New York Times describes, among other things, how in 1838, the Jesuit priests running what is now called Georgetown University sold off the plantation

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  • Everyone in the Developed World Owes This Man Their Life

    Everyone in the Developed World Owes This Man Their Life0

    While living in a developed modern nation comes with a slew of perks and benefits that allow for a certain degree of comfort when it comes to living, one of the unfortunate downsides to having superior technology reveals itself when one looks at those who use it maliciously or for destruction. Nuclear weapons are undoubtedly

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  • A Holocaust Forgotten

    A Holocaust Forgotten0

    If you visit Lisbon today, in the downtown square you can find a half of a stone orb resting on a slab. Within the stone circle is the Star of David, etched with the following: “In memory of the thousands of Jews who were victimized by intolerance and religious fanaticism, killed on the massacre that

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  • 5’9” White Guy: ‘I’m a 6’5” Chinese woman’

    5’9” White Guy: ‘I’m a 6’5” Chinese woman’0

    There’s another ‘interview-college-kids’ video floating around social media that’s getting a fair bit of attention these days. This one takes place at the University of Washington and involves a 5’ 9” white guy asking questions about his identity to a small group of students. It’s definitely worth a watch. Now, keep in mind that videos

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  • 1939 vs. 2008: What do men and women want in marriage?

    1939 vs. 2008: What do men and women want in marriage?0

    Oxford educated economist Max Roser published an interesting—and telling—chart on Twitter recently. Roser, the founder of Our World Data, analyzed the top 18 traits men and women valued in their partners and compared them cross-generationally, from 1939 to 2008. The following values were identified as important and ranked by men or women: Mutual attraction, Dependable

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  • WTH Happened to Argentina’s Economy? This Chart WIll Show You…

    WTH Happened to Argentina’s Economy? This Chart WIll Show You…0

    Last week, I noticed that Argentina is laying the groundwork to return to global debt markets. As a point of background, a decade and a half ago Argentina defaulted on a $100 billion obligation, the largest debt default in history. Then, in 2014, it happened again. We’ve become kind of immune to bad economic news

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