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GQ Magazine Includes the Bible on its List of Books Not Worth Reading 0
- Literature
- April 26, 2018
A new article in GQ lists the“21 most overrated books ever.” Of the 21 books GQ lists that aren’t worth reading, one of them is the Bible. It’s enough to make you wonder if GQ is a magazine worth reading. The Bible gets the boot, along with Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea and
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Alfie Evans: From the Cradle to the Grave 0
- Culture
- April 26, 2018
Offspring was not reared at the will of the father, but was taken and carried by him to a place called Lesche, where the elders of the tribes officially examined the infant, and if it was well-built and sturdy, they ordered the father to rear it…but if it was ill-born and deformed, they sent it
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5 Myths about the Great Depression and New Deal 0
- Economics
- April 26, 2018
This year marks the 85th anniversary of the New Deal, the controversial set of programs, public works, and economic reforms that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt undertook to combat America’s Great Depression. Historians commonly contend that the New Deal was pivotal in beating the Great Depression and protecting the American middle class. But how significant was it,
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Why America Can’t Figure Out Melania’s Confident Fashion Statements 0
- Culture
- April 25, 2018
The first state dinner hosted by the Trumps was received with great pomp, circumstance, and, per usual, titter over the little details. Perhaps not surprisingly, it was First Lady Melania Trump’s fashion choices that generated a lot of attention. Her gown for the dinner. The black outfit she wore when she visited Mount Vernon. The
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Rent Control Advocates Need a Lesson in Economics 0
- Economics
- April 25, 2018
Rent control is one of those policies that continues to attract the favor of the public despite the fact it has repeatedly proven to be ineffective when it comes to improving the lives of those it is aimed at. The latest example can be found in Sacramento, California, where a group of people have put
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Prof Who Said She’s Happy Barbara Bush Is Dead Didn’t Violate University Policies, Cal State Says 0
- Culture
- April 25, 2018
California State University, Fresno closed its investigation Tuesday into the professor who called former first lady Barbara Bush an “amazing racist” and said she is “happy the witch is dead.” Fresno State President Joseph I. Castro asserted that English professor Randa Jarrar did not violate any of the school’s policies with her remarks, reported the Foundation for Individual Rights in
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How Colleges Are Ripping Off a Generation of Ill-Prepared Students 0
- Education
- April 25, 2018
Earlier this month, the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress, aka the nation’s “report card,” was released. It’s not a pretty story. Only 37 percent of 12th-graders tested proficient or better in reading, and only 25 percent did so in math. Among black students, only 17 percent tested proficient or better in reading, and just
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Agnostic Philosopher: Religion Is Awesome Emotional Therapy 0
- Culture
- April 25, 2018
Faith and religion get an increasingly bad rap in today’s world. As Pew Research discovered in 2016, roughly a quarter of Americans consider themselves members of the “nones,” a category which classifies people as “atheists, agnostics or ‘nothing in particular.’” This number has risen from ten percent just a few decades ago. However, not everyone
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Whistleblower: There Is No Faculty Accountability in Universities 0
- Education
- April 24, 2018
I became interested in academic accountability within the university because I had no choice: the lack of accountability I experienced at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington obligated me to act. I had become embroiled in a situation where I was morally bound to report wrongdoing. But I had no idea that being a
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GQ Magazine Includes the Bible on its List of Books Not Worth Reading 0