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Why Millions of Millennials Are Living in ‘Bad Faith’0
- Culture
- December 21, 2016
Safe Spaces, trigger warnings, parental coverage of health insurance until age 26 and living at home into one’s thirties…why are we treating young adults like they are infants, folks? Without adversity, Millennials fail to develop perseverance and grit. Will they ever grow up? The French playwright and existential philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) had an expression
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Trump Says Torture ‘Works’ – But What Does the Science Say?0
- Culture
- December 21, 2016
The US president-elect Donald Trump has on several occasions insisted that torture is a good idea and that procedures such as water-boarding are not “tough enough” when dealing with terrorist groups like Islamic State. The view is clearly morally and ethically questionable. But if we put that aside, does he have a point? If we
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How Can Children Believe that Santa Claus Exists?0
- Culture
- December 21, 2016
The holiday season is upon us, and so are its attendant myths, most prominent of which is the Santa Claus story. This is the time that many children are told about a man who lives forever, resides at the North Pole, knows what every child in the world desires, drives a sleigh pulled by flying
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Failure to Launch: Young Americans Living with Parents Hits 75-Year High0
- Culture
- December 21, 2016
Via the Wall Street Journal: Almost 40% of young Americans were living with their parents, siblings or other relatives in 2015, the largest percentage since 1940, according to an analysis of census data by real estate tracker Trulia. Despite a rebounding economy and recent job growth, the share of those between the ages of 18
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Why Wandering Minds Are Unhappy Minds0
- Education
- December 20, 2016
Have you ever eaten an apple cider doughnut? I hadn’t; but I was craving one. My wife and I were hiking on a beautiful fall day. The first leg of the hike was unrelentingly steep. Sometimes at the beginning of a hike, my mind fills with complaints: too hot, too many bugs, too steep, too
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Why I’ll Never Own a Cat (And Why You Shouldn’t Either)0
- Education
- December 20, 2016
Last summer, a few neighbor children came running up to our house. They had found a litter of kittens under their deck. My 5-year-old daughter was out the door so fast I didn’t have the opportunity to shout, “Stop! Brain parasites!” I’ve been deathly afraid of cats for five years now. It all stems from
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When Rudolph Meets Beowulf0
- Education
- December 20, 2016
One doesn’t need to be a Christian to enjoy Christmas. Or, to put it another way, even non-Christians can enjoy Christmas, if they embrace it in the broad Dickensian spirit of the Thing. Yes indeed. Everyone can enjoy Christmas. Or nearly everyone. There are, of course, always the Scrooges. Take, for instance, the Scrooges at
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The Reason Nazis Studied American Race Laws0
- History
- December 20, 2016
On 5 June 1934, about a year and half after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of the Reich, the leading lawyers of Nazi Germany gathered at a meeting to plan what would become the Nuremberg Laws, the centrepiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi race regime. The meeting was an important one, and a stenographer was present
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Scholar: U.S. Schools Producing the ‘Dumbest Generation’ Ever0
- Culture
- December 20, 2016
Generally speaking, if there’s one thing that liberals and conservatives agree on it’s that America’s schools are in rough shape. A look at the results coming out of today’s schools only lends further credibility to this assertion. With the exception of economics, fewer than 40 percent of today’s high school seniors are proficient in any
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