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  • Quiz: Name the Logical Fallacy

    Quiz: Name the Logical Fallacy0

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  • Medical Journal: Extend Adolescence to Age 24

    Medical Journal: Extend Adolescence to Age 240

    “All children, except one, grow up.” Thus begins J.M. Barrie’s famous novel, Peter Pan. But while this statement was once exceedingly true, popular trends seem to be calling it into question, and if nothing else, it seems that children mature much later than was once the case. Evidence of this can be seen in the

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  • Does Work Make Mothers Happy?

    Does Work Make Mothers Happy?0

    Last October, New York psychoanalyst and author Erica Komisar arrived for an interview on the ABC network’s Good Morning America talk show to discuss her new book, Being There: Why Prioritising Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters. Just before the camera went live the interviewer told her: “I don’t believe in the premise of

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  • How Today’s Students Can Become Great Writers by Using Thomas Jefferson’s Methods

    How Today’s Students Can Become Great Writers by Using Thomas Jefferson’s Methods3

    During my high school years, a number of my friends were homeschooled kids who belonged to a particular accrediting organization. This organization required each student to write an annual research paper, the length of which corresponded to their grade (i.e. a 10th grade student was required to turn in 10 pages). Over the years, I

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  • How the Great Books Are Revolutionizing College Admissions Tests

    How the Great Books Are Revolutionizing College Admissions Tests0

    You may remember taking the SAT or the ACT. Hours and hours of memorizing techniques and tricks, all to get that perfect score to unlock your college dreams. These tests have monopolized the college entrance process, and in recent years—in the case of the SAT in particular—have been tied to the controversial Common Core standards.

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  • Fear and Mass Surveillance: Our Constitutionally Toxic Political Cocktail

    Fear and Mass Surveillance: Our Constitutionally Toxic Political Cocktail0

    • January 18, 2018

    At 12:51pm on January 18, 2018–just a day before it was set to expire–the Senate followed the House’s lead and reauthorized the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act (FAA) Section 702 mass surveillance program for another six years by a vote of 65-34. Writing for JustSecurity.org in October 2017, I made this prediction about the then-looming

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  • Did the Catholic Church Invent Propaganda?

    Did the Catholic Church Invent Propaganda?0

    “The Church created propaganda.” This is the charge leveled by French philosopher and sociologist Jacques Ellul in his 1964 book The Technological Society, which now has the infamous distinction of being Unabomber Ted Kaczynski’s favorite book. Is the charge true? Yes and no. As you might expect, propaganda has been used in one form or another

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  • Patrick Deneen: Why Liberalism Has Failed

    Patrick Deneen: Why Liberalism Has Failed0

    Patrick Deneen’s thoughtful book poses a challenge to libertarians. Deneen, a political theorist who teaches at Notre Dame, has with great force identified a fundamental tendency of our times. Destruction of traditional attachments to family, local institutions, culture, and virtuous behavior isolates individuals and makes them dependent on an all-powerful government. In arguing in this

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  • Master’s Degrees in Janitorial Science?

    Master’s Degrees in Janitorial Science?0

    There has been mounting evidence that the financial payoff from the traditional bachelor’s degree is declining, particularly for men. For example, Census Bureau data suggest that, from 2005 to 2016, the average earnings differential for male workers holding bachelor’s degrees compared with those holding high school diplomas fell from $39,440 to $37,653 (in 2016 dollars)—at

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