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Why Celebrities Have a Problem With Monogamy0
- Culture
- October 16, 2017
If I were Dax Shepard I might be a bit worried right now. His wife, Kristen Bell, of Frozen fame, recently said in an interview, “I’m quite positive we are not meant to be monogamous.” Yikes. She went on to say that her point was that monogamous relationships are hard because they require “a lot
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The Scandalous Truth about Obamacare Is Laid Bare0
- Economics
- October 16, 2017
It’s not just that Obamacare is financially unsustainable. More seriously, it is intellectually unsustainable, even though this truth has been slow to emerge. This has come to an end with President Trump’s executive order. What does it do? It cuts subsidies to failing providers, yes. It also redefines the meaning of “short term” policies from
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Seven Quick Facts on Vocational Education1
- Education
- October 16, 2017
It used to be that those who pursued vocational education either in high school or postsecondary education were considered the “dumb students.” Such a mentality, however, appears to be fading from view, particularly as high college costs make those holding vocational degrees – with little to no debt involved – look ever more brilliant. But
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Orwell: ‘History Stopped in 1936’ (and Everything Since Is Propaganda)0
- History
- October 16, 2017
Most people are familiar with the plot of the The Matrix. The 1999 film portrays a dystopian future where the “reality” that people inhabit is actually a simulation created by machines intent on subjugating the human race. The film has continued to resonate with many people because of a growing sense that our modern world
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‘Know Thyself’ is a Really Bad Philosophy to Live By0
- Philosophy
- October 16, 2017
There is a phrase you are as likely to find in a serious philosophy text as you are in the wackiest self-help book: ‘Know thyself!’ The phrase has serious philosophical pedigree: by Socrates’ time, it was more or less received wisdom (apparently chiselled into the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi) though a
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Why Rationalism is Key to a Happy Marriage1
- Culture
- October 13, 2017
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice famously begins by saying, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” In the hundreds of pages which follow this statement, Austen depicts many marriages, some successful and some decidedly not. The successful ones –
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Where Were the Feminist Women Who Should Have Stopped Harvey Weinstein?0
- Culture
- October 13, 2017
Forget waiting for Superman. I’m waiting for Wonder Woman. Since the various stories of Harvey Weinstein’s crimes and misdemeanors have appeared in the news this week, I keep looking for one in which a woman tells Weinstein to take a flying leap (or something a little more explicit) in a public place. I kept looking
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Conservatives Shouldn’t Sacrifice Their Principles for Trump0
- History
- October 13, 2017
In his play “The Knights,” the Athenian playwright Aristophanes creatively and humorously showed the insidious power of demagoguery. A satire written in the 5th-century B.C., the play depicted a Greek city-state that was succumbing to weaknesses of democracy. “The Knights,” one of the oldest Greek plays to survive, pits two smooth-talking demagogues against one another. One
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Anger is Temporary Madness: The Stoics Knew How to Curb it129
- Philosophy
- October 13, 2017
People get angry for all sorts of reasons, from the trivial ones (someone cut me off on the highway) to the really serious ones (people keep dying in Syria and nobody is doing anything about it). But, mostly, anger arises for trivial reasons. That’s why the American Psychological Association has a section of its website
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