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Edina School Board Settles Lawsuit with Conservative Students, Denies Wrongdoing 0
- Culture
- March 5, 2018
A school board in Minnesota settled a federal lawsuit filed last week that had accused the district of violating the First Amendment rights of conservative students. Edina High School, which has long enjoyed a reputation as one of the Minnesota’s best schools, came under scrutiny last year after it was revealed the school had implemented
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Bill Gates Fails Logic While Talking Cryptocurrencies in Reddit AMA 1
- Economics
- March 5, 2018
In a Q&A session on Reddit last week, Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates accused cryptocurrencies of causing “deaths in a fairly direct way,” leading to headlines such as this: “Bill Gates says crypto-currencies cause deaths.” Gates was of course referring to the fact that cryptocurrencies facilitate the purchase of illegal substances on the black market, which sometimes
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Aristotle Can Help You Know Whether to Fire Off that Text or Email 0
- Culture
- March 5, 2018
Suppose you want to get in touch with a friend. Once, your options for doing so might have been sparse: pick up the phone or write a letter. But these days, you have to decide: Should you call or text, use Snapchat, or reach out on Twitter, Messenger or Skype? Other considerations, whether it’s an
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Millennial Males with Degrees are Getting Crushed in the Workplace (See Chart)0
- Culture
- March 2, 2018
When it comes to men and women in the working world, it’s often assumed that the latter get the short end of the stick. As such, a great deal of time and attention is devoted to helping women break any and all glass ceilings that stand in their way. But what if women have already
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Lack of Police Accountability Shows the “Social Contract” Isn’t Working 0
- March 2, 2018
In the wake of the Florida school shooting earlier this month, Broward County police deputies are being accused of hiding outside the school while students were being murdered inside. Moreover, both the Sheriff’s department and the FBI are being accused of failing to follow up on clear and repeated threats made by the school shooter
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Justice Alito Exposes the Hypocrisy of Liberal Double-standards 0
- Politics
- March 2, 2018
You probably haven’t even heard about it, but yesterday there was an exchange in the Supreme Court that future generations will regard as one of the most significant revelations of our political era. The case of Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky concerns a Minnesota statute that broadly bans all political apparel at the polling place.
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Christians Can Be ‘Secular’, Too 0
- Religion
- March 2, 2018
When most people hear the word “secular,” they associate it with those who either don’t believe in God or don’t attend church and pray on a regular basis. That’s one of the meanings of the term described by Charles Taylor in his monumental work A Secular Age: “… secularity consists in the falling off of
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Bubble-Wrapping Children: School Bans Students from Touching Snow 0
- Culture
- March 2, 2018
Several years ago, the now world-famous clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson made a list of 32 rules for living and posted them on Quora. Those rules became so popular that Peterson fleshed out a handful of them in the book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. Peterson’s original list was headed by a simple
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The Real Reason Women Avoid Careers in Math and Science 1
- Education
- March 1, 2018
Remember James Damore, the young Google engineer who was sacked last August for resisting the company’s gender equality programme? Damore wasn’t against having more women in tech, he just did not believe the present male-female imbalance is owing to sexism and can be rectified by changing men’s attitudes. The sexes tend to have different work
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Edina School Board Settles Lawsuit with Conservative Students, Denies Wrongdoing 0