Blog 3 Columns

New Study: Staying Married More than 10 Years Dramatically Decreases Divorce Rate 0
- February 8, 2016
Around Valentine’s Day, stories of old, wizened married couples tend to grace newspaper pages with renewed fervor, such as this recent one about Nicholas and Rafaela Ordaz who just celebrated 82 years of marriage. For many millennials who seemingly struggle with a lack of commitment and fear of divorce, such long-lasting marriage is amazing, particularly
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NARAL Calls Caring, Involved Fathers ‘Sexist’?0
- Culture
- February 8, 2016
If you watched the Superbowl yesterday, you likely saw the following commercial. The commercial, which advertises the merits of the 2016 Hyundai Genesis Car Finder, features a protective father stalking his daughter and her boyfriend on their first date. As a daughter who has admittedly rolled her eyes on occasion at the protective measures taken
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Latest U.S. Move May Piss Off Russia 0
- Politics
- February 8, 2016
Does the U.S. really want to be pissing off Vladimir Putin? At this point, is the risk necessary? Last Tuesday, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter named Russia—not ISIS—as the primary threat to U.S. national security. To “deter Russian aggression,” he is proposing to quadruple military spending in Europe to $3.4 billion, which will allow the U.S.
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Is Selfishness a Virtue?0
- Culture
- February 8, 2016
In her introduction to The Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand gives us a fairly clear understanding of her definition of selfishness. “Since selfishness is ‘concern with one’s own interests,’ the Objectivist ethics uses that concept in its exact and purest sense. It is not a concept that one can surrender to man’s enemies, nor to
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This is What Happens to Students When They Read the ‘Great Books’0
- Education
- February 6, 2016
Many of our readers have heard of, and a few have probably been educated by, “Great Books” programs. They consist of reading and discussing “classic” works of literature, philosophy, and even science that were a standard part of many high school and college curricula as late as a century ago. For decades they have been
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What is a friend?0
- Culture
- February 5, 2016
A recently released study by Oxford University claims to be “the first real attempt to test whether online social media do allow us to increase the size of our social networks.” The conclusions of the study? Your Facebook friends aren’t your friends – except for, maybe, four of them. “…there is a cognitive constraint on
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This Is How a Dark Age Begins…2
- History
- February 5, 2016
In order to really be said to “know” something, it must become a part of you. Information, ideas, and data: these are external to us. It is only through undertaking the hard, focused work of thinking through these things and understanding them that we internalize them; that they become “knowledge.” One finds this sentiment echoed
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Should the Education System Embrace ‘Subsidiarity’?0
- Education
- February 5, 2016
Reports of failure in public schools tend to be systemic. Stories of success tend to be localized. Is this a reason to promote subsidiarity in the public school system? Subsidiarity is a principle that calls for decision-making power and responsibility to be held at the lowest level as much as possible. Applied to schools, this
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Martin Shkreli: If morality is relative, why are we outraged?0
- Culture
- February 5, 2016
The world loathes Martin Shkreli, indeed he may have made himself “the most hated man in America.” He earned that reputation when, as CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, he hiked the cost of Daraprim, “the drug … used to fight infections in patients suffering from AIDS and other conditions”, from $13.50 to $750 – a 5,000%
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New Study: Staying Married More than 10 Years Dramatically Decreases Divorce Rate 0