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Would Bradley Manning’s Sentence Have Been Commuted?0
- Culture
- January 18, 2017
President Obama defied the advice of his secretary of defense on Tuesday, opting to commute the 35-year prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. Army soldier. Manning, once known as Bradley Manning, was convicted on 20 charges in 2013 after stealing hundreds of thousands of government files and selling them to WikiLeaks. One person
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The Mob Grows in Strength…0
- Culture
- January 18, 2017
The herd mentality. The susceptibility to propaganda. The philistine disdain for higher ideals. The inability to calmly entertain and discuss ideas. The loss of virtue. Many of us are troubled by these trends that we see in society today, for they signal that “the mob” is growing in strength. And all of it, according to
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High School Apprenticeships: A New Path to Prosperity0
- Culture
- January 18, 2017
It’s no secret that the college degree has long been considered a path to success. It’s also no secret that those who take that pathway are more often than not ending up in the mire of student debt – and struggling to get out. This dilemma has caused many to look elsewhere for alternatives to
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Don’t Be Outraged by this Teacher’s Dating Advice. Pass it On!0
- Culture
- January 18, 2017
About a decade ago, my husband took me to dinner at the famous 21 Club in New York. The former speakeasy opened in 1930 and still has an old-fashioned air about it. After staring at the menu for a few minutes, I looked up puzzled. “Psst, I don’t see any prices,” I whispered. My husband
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Benjamin Franklin’s 4 Steps to Becoming a Great Writer0
- Education
- January 18, 2017
If Twitter or Facebook had existed during the colonial period, Benjamin Franklin likely would have been one of its wittiest contributors, as evidenced by his pithy words of wisdom in Poor Richard’s Almanac. But Franklin wrote far more than witty slogans. In fact, his personal correspondence, policy proposals, and other writings take up a full
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Are You Unconsciously Racist?0
- Culture
- January 18, 2017
Academic psychology recently got a wake-up call. It’s not that the results of most psychological experiments are irreproducible. That’s hardly news. Instead, the highly acclaimed measure of unconscious racism, the Implicit-association Test (IAT), does not pass scientific muster. This revelation wouldn’t matter so much except that the IAT is already widely accepted. Many psychologists believe
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Stem Cell Science Could Soon Make Sex Obsolete (or Largely Recreational)0
- Culture
- January 17, 2017
Last year a Stanford law professor, Hank Greely, published a book, The End of Sex And The Future of Human Reproduction. In it he predicted that in 20 to 40 years’ time people would no longer have sex to make babies. Sex will be largely recreational and procreation will be subcontracted to IVF clinics to create
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Politician: Wives Should Withhold Sex Until Husbands Vote0
- Culture
- January 17, 2017
We see it every election season. Those ads featuring an outwardly diverse group of celebrities imploring Americans to get off their lazy butts and vote. (The 2016 season was unique in that one commercial, shown below, poked fun at the cliché.) A member of parliament in Kenya is taking it up a notch. She is
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Is There a Way to Stop America’s Minds from Closing?0
- Culture
- January 17, 2017
A few years ago, a friend of mine expressed a sentiment that many of us have probably felt at some time or another: “I want my children to have a better education than I had.” Now, this friend happens to be a very talented, intelligent, and well-educated young lady. For her to say such a
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