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  • 5 Reasons Why Fake News is Here to Stay

    5 Reasons Why Fake News is Here to Stay0

    In case you haven’t been paying attention, mainstream news outlets have been screaming about the problem of fake news on social media. Some have argued that the platform engineers should filter out this false content. Others blame cyber-entrepreneurs for the fake news. Still others think it’s caused by web-bots. And now there’s even speculation that

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  • Wealthy Designers Refuse Service to Melania Trump

    Wealthy Designers Refuse Service to Melania Trump0

    People magazine recently reported news that a number of prominent fashion designers have refused to work with Melania Trump because they do not approve of her, or more likely, her husband’s politics and language. Given Donald Trump’s often offensive way of speaking about, well, almost everything, that is understandable. Thus, they conclude, if you design

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  • Louisa May Alcott’s Insightful Advice for Young Women

    Louisa May Alcott’s Insightful Advice for Young Women0

    Google’s Doodle greeted me this morning with the reminder that November 29th is Louisa May Alcott’s birthday. Alcott, the famed author from the late 1800s, was a bit of a mover and shaker in society, particularly in her roles as an abolitionist and feminist. Yet Ms. Alcott’s feminism wasn’t quite the categorization we consider it

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  • Journalist Cites Bogus Climate Stat in Speech on ‘Fake News’

    Journalist Cites Bogus Climate Stat in Speech on ‘Fake News’0

    At a recent awards ceremony, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour denounced what she described as a “tsunami of fake news, aka lies” that occurred during the 2016 U.S. presidential election cycle.   Amanpour, a British-Iranian journalist and former host of ABC’s This Week, made the remarks during a speech she gave after receiving the Burton Benjamin Memorial

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  • Is it Time to Give Teachers More Autonomy in the Classroom?

    Is it Time to Give Teachers More Autonomy in the Classroom?0

    In a recent article for The Atlantic, author and teacher Timothy Walker ponders the question of what happens when Finnish teachers are placed in American classrooms. Long the poster child of modern western education success stories, the Finnish education system attributes part of its success to more recess and greater teacher autonomy. It is this

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  • Donald Trump Could Shock a Divided Nation Back to Life

    Donald Trump Could Shock a Divided Nation Back to Life0

    “Partnership, not conflict,” were the words spoken by President-elect Donald Trump during his acceptance speech. That collaborative approach is what my scholarship on good governance shows is required for effective public administration. That is also what effective and sustainable leadership demands of the Republican Party, which is now in a position to govern with a

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  • Christians Face Surge of Intolerance, Discrimination

    Christians Face Surge of Intolerance, Discrimination0

    In 2011, I served as Representative of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) for combating racism, xenophobia, and intolerance and discrimination against Christians and members of other religions. There were two other representatives for combating anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. “Other religions” meant all religions other than Judaism and Islam.The OSCE is the largest

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  • Can the Virtue of Simple Living be Rediscoverd in a Postmodern World?

    Can the Virtue of Simple Living be Rediscoverd in a Postmodern World?0

    The good life is the simple life. Among philosophical ideas about how we should live, this one is a hardy perennial; from Socrates to Thoreau, from the Buddha to Wendell Berry, thinkers have been peddling it for more than two millennia. And it still has plenty of adherents. Magazines such as Real Simple call out

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  • Would the Pentagon Benefit from a ‘Philosopher-in-Chief’?

    Would the Pentagon Benefit from a ‘Philosopher-in-Chief’?0

    Would the Pentagon benefit from creating a position for a philosopher?  Franz-Stefan Gady, an editor for the Diplomat, says yes. It’s an interesting question. My first thought was this: What would a philosopher actually do in such a role? Gady offers an answer: The philosopher’s job—true to the Socratic tradition—would be to ask “simple” questions.

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