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Media and Trump Share Blame for the Death of Truth0
- Culture
- March 21, 2017
The Washington Post recently criticized President Trump’s Tweetstorm about being wiretapped, mocking his claims as baseless. They argue that he’s sowing dissent and making up facts to distract the media from important issues. The Post neglected to mention that the FBI and other agencies have been surveilling Trump’s advisors, or that in October the FBI
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How Motherhood Has Changed over the Generations0
- Culture
- March 21, 2017
The other day I came across this article which showed photos of how motherhood has stayed the same over the years. It’s pretty special to think that the overflowing love, the joy, the struggles, the tiredness and so on, is a constant for mothers – past, present and future. But there are a few things
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Grammarians rejoice in the $10 million comma0
- Culture
- March 21, 2017
Portland-based company Oakhurst Dairy will potentially owe $10 million to 75 milk-truck drivers in the US state of Maine because of a missing comma in a legal clause. Last week, Judge David J. Barron upheld an appeal in a class-action lawsuit, opening his opinion with: “For want of a comma, we have this case.” Three
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David Cay Johnston: Journalism a Bastion for ‘Trust Fund Kids’0
- Culture
- March 21, 2017
In a recent Salon.com interview, investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston declared that the real problem with today’s journalism is not ideological bias or fake news. Instead, it’s the myopia journalists suffer from as a result of attending elite prep schools, growing up with silver spoons in their mouths and living off
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An Amazing Thing Happened When Prisons Began Teaching Latin to Convicts0
- Education
- March 21, 2017
A little over a year ago, it was reported that Australian schoolchildren were suddenly making dramatic gains in a number of subjects. The largest advances came in reading, with students increasing their “reading age” by over two years on average. The secret behind these dramatic gains was a little program called Sound Training, which uses
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Writer: We Have to Ditch Free Speech Because Trump Won0
- Culture
- March 20, 2017
In a recent opinion piece in Slate, titled “The Kids are Right: There’s Nothing Outrageous about Stamping out Bigoted Speech,” Osita Nwanevu argues that in the age of Trump student activists should be permitted to dictate who speaks on college campuses. Shutting down speakers like Charles Murray at Middlebury College and Milo Yiannopoulos at UC
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The Pro-Art Case for Defunding the National Endowment for the Arts0
- Culture
- March 20, 2017
President Trump has released his budget blueprint. From a big picture perspective, the size of government won’t change. He’s kicking the can down the road on entitlements, which is obviously disappointing for people who can add and subtract. He does cut some domestic programs, but taxpayers won’t reap the benefits since those savings will be
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Professor: Relativism Destroying Our Esteem for Education0
- Culture
- March 20, 2017
The education system gets a lot of flack these days: students are falling behind internationally; students don’t know history; students don’t know how to engage in rational discourse, and on it goes. But while these issues are very real and concerning, they are really only symptoms of a greater problem. In his 1956 essay, Education
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Not Everyone Can Handle the Truth0
- Education
- March 20, 2017
When it comes to arguing over differences on an important point, “saving your breath” on someone isn’t always an act of dismissiveness. In some cases, it’s probably an act of wisdom. The democratization of intellect in America has created the impression that almost everyone should be capable of rational discourse. After all, we live in
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