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  • Americans Slip in Global Happiness Survey. But What is ‘Happiness’?

    Americans Slip in Global Happiness Survey. But What is ‘Happiness’?0

    The 2017 World Happiness Report, a list of 155 countries ranked according to multiple measures of personal and collective welfare, was recently released by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), a United Nations initiative. According to the report, the countries with the happiest inhabitants are Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, Finland, the Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand,

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  • 3 Things the U.S. Could Learn from Israel’s Education System

    3 Things the U.S. Could Learn from Israel’s Education System0

    It’s no secret that the U.S. has a mediocre education system. When ranked against other first-world nations, it’s not hard to see that a continuation of such trends will eventually leave America flailing in business, industry, and innovation. But is there a way to remedy this problem of labor force ingenuity – even without improving

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  • Why Most Students No Longer Read the ‘Great Books’

    Why Most Students No Longer Read the ‘Great Books’0

    For about a hundred years now, various educators have tried to promote a return to the study of the “Great Books” in schools. But they have largely failed to gain much traction.   “Great Books” is the name given to the so-called Western canon of literature—those books throughout history that have been influential in shaping

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  • Preschooler Gets Week-long Suspension for Picking Up Shell Casing

    Preschooler Gets Week-long Suspension for Picking Up Shell Casing0

    Once upon a time, a 7-year-old boy was suspended from school for making his pop-tart into a gun. With the outrage that ensued over such a punishment, one would have thought that common sense would have returned by now in regards to harmless incidents with little boys and guns. Kristy Jackson’s 4-year-old son Hunter is

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  • How the Government Ruined US Healthcare — and What Can Be Done

    How the Government Ruined US Healthcare — and What Can Be Done0

    Government’s meddling in the healthcare business has been disastrous from the get-go. Since 1910, when Republican William Taft gave in to the American Medical Association’s lobbying efforts, most administrations have passed new healthcare regulations. With each new law or set of new regulations, restrictions on the healthcare market went further, until at some point in

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  • How a study about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome was doctored, adding to pain and stigma

    How a study about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome was doctored, adding to pain and stigma0

    The public relies on scientists to report their findings accurately and completely, but that does not always happen. Too often, researchers announce only their most favorable outcomes, while keeping more disappointing results well out of sight. This phenomenon, first identified by the psychologist Robert Rosenthal in 1979, is called the “file drawer problem.” Although it

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  • Documentary on Yale Reveals How Scary U.S. Campuses Have Become

    Documentary on Yale Reveals How Scary U.S. Campuses Have Become0

    We have written a lot about the suppression of free speech on campuses and touched on some of the things that have gone on at Yale. But I have seen nothing better on this front than the 12-minute YouTube video I watched this morning, We the Internet TV‘s short documentary “Silence U Part 2: What has Yale Become?”

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  • College Prez: ‘I’m Scared’ by Rise of Emotionalism on Campus

    College Prez: ‘I’m Scared’ by Rise of Emotionalism on Campus0

    We’ve seen campus discord explode in recent years and it seems to be picking up steam in the past few months. Whether it’s the issue of Halloween costumes at Yale, or white girls wearing hoop earrings, or Charles Murray speaking at a campus lecture, there always seems to be something that has students riled up.

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  • California Schools Facing Teacher and Staff Cuts—Because They Got Whiter

    California Schools Facing Teacher and Staff Cuts—Because They Got Whiter0

    LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (March 23) — Parents of students at Walter Reed Middle School received disappointing news this month when they were told by school officials that class sizes were increasing and some teachers and staff would be losing their jobs. Disappointment turned to anger for many, however, when they were told the reason: The

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