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  • Coronavirus Reminds Us What Education Without School Can Look

    Coronavirus Reminds Us What Education Without School Can Look0

    As the global coronavirus outbreak closes more schools for weeks, and sometimes months – some 300 million children are currently missing class – parents, educators, and policymakers are panicking. Mass compulsory schooling has become such a cornerstone of contemporary culture that we forget it’s a relatively recent social construct. Responding to the pandemic, the United Nations declared that “the

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  • A Body Without a Soul: Is That the State of Our Culture?

    A Body Without a Soul: Is That the State of Our Culture?0

    An older man with a Van Dyke beard often visits my favorite coffee shop. Eventually, a mutual friend introduced us. This gentleman, who once taught philosophy and served as president of a small Catholic college, began talking to me of Heidegger and Hegel, of various philosophical movements in the nineteenth century, and of capitalism and

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  • Why New York’s Hand Sanitizer Stunt Won’t Work

    Why New York’s Hand Sanitizer Stunt Won’t Work0

    As new cases of COVID-19 continue to be diagnosed in the U.S. and abroad, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday announced the state is prepared to introduce its own brand of hand sanitizer, free of charge, called NYS Clean hand sanitizer. At the press conference unveiling the brand, Cuomo remarked, “This is a superior

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  • The Three Rs: Let’s Pass Them Along to Our Young People

    The Three Rs: Let’s Pass Them Along to Our Young People0

    Room 241, a blog maintained by Portland’s Concordia University, reports these dismaying statistics regarding the current state of the Three Rs – reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic – in America. More than 30 million American adults cannot read, write, or do math above a third-grade level. Seventy-five percent of American prison inmates either never graduated from high school

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  • How Did American Schools Get Like This?

    How Did American Schools Get Like This?0

    For much of America, the Midwest is a part of deplorable flyover country filled with hick farmers and blue-collar manufacturers who somehow conspired with the Russians to steal the 2016 election and put Donald Trump into the White House. Those of us who live here know that the Midwest is far from immune to the

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  • Greater Idaho Movement Shows Americans’ Shift Toward Decentralization

    Greater Idaho Movement Shows Americans’ Shift Toward Decentralization0

    Recently disgruntled residents of rural counties in southwest Oregon have been organizing a petition to move Idaho’s border westward to form a “Greater Idaho” that could also potentially include parts of Northern California. This petition mirrors a recent proposal in Virginia in which rural countries in the state would separate and join West Virginia in protest of Virginia’s latest push for gun

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  • Can Donald Trump Make Me Stay Home If I Get Coronavirus?

    Can Donald Trump Make Me Stay Home If I Get Coronavirus?0

    President Donald Trump recently appointed Vice President Mike Pence to lead the government’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak and control public statements by government health officials about the crisis. In the days since, health departments throughout the country have investigated potential cases, announced new cases and declared public health emergencies, all without the approval of

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  • The Candidate You Like Is the One You Think Is Most Electable

    The Candidate You Like Is the One You Think Is Most Electable0

    Electability has been the single most important force motivating voters in the 2020 Democratic primaries. But what is it? What makes one candidate seem like they could get votes from a majority of Americans while another one couldn’t? Objectively, political scientists like myself have done a lot of research on what types of candidates win

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  • Target’s Wage Floor Shows the Folly in Wage Fixation

    Target’s Wage Floor Shows the Folly in Wage Fixation0

    Bonnie Furlong started working at Target in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, more than seven years ago. Today, however, she’s making the same as new hires and less than she was before the Minneapolis-based retailer raised its wage floor to $13 an hour in June of last year. “The last time they raised it, they cut our hours,

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