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Daylight Savings Time Isn’t Worth the Trouble it Causes0
- Economics
- November 7, 2016
Today the sun is shining during my commute home from work. But this weekend, public service announcements will remind us to “fall back,” ending daylight saving time (DST) by setting our clocks an hour earlier on Sunday, Nov. 6. On Nov. 7, many of us will commute home in the dark. This semiannual ritual shifts
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Carl Schmitt: The Philosopher of Conflict0
- Education
- November 7, 2016
Now to Heidegger’s friend and colleague Carl Schmitt, who had also attacked liberalism incessantly before the Nazi period, enthusiastically served the Nazi state, and then brooded after the defeat and spent decades developing and promulgating anti-libertarian thinking across the political spectrum. Carl Schmitt was a German legal theorist whose book, The Concept of the Political, came to
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Can You Name America’s First Presidents?0
- Culture
- November 7, 2016
It was recently reported that many college students don’t know that Thomas Jefferson was once the president. That thought is particularly alarming when we consider that those same students will likely be choosing the nation’s forty-fifth president in tomorrow’s election. One has to wonder how many other voters are in the same boat when it
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The Education System Isn’t Designed for Smart Kids2
- Education
- November 4, 2016
Sometimes, something that’s right in front of you can escape your attention. Over the past five years I’ve looked at countless student performance numbers, and almost always, my attention goes to the large percentages of students who are performing below grade level in reading, math, history, etc. I see these numbers as evidence of the
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Obamacare Failing Before Our Eyes0
- Economics
- November 4, 2016
Health care insurance premiums will increase significantly next year as a result of the Affordable Care Act, and many consumers will be left with access to only a single insurance provider, according to administration officials. Arizona will see the biggest spike in prices (a whopping 116 percent), while Oklahoma will see a spike of 69 percent and Tennessee,
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Millennial Explains Why She Can No Longer Use the Word ‘Boyfriend’0
- Culture
- November 4, 2016
As if another example of our culture’s narcissism were needed, twenty-something writer Elizabeth Sherman has taken to the pages of The Washington Post to complain that she doesn’t have a term for her boyfriend. Why? Because according to her, the word “boyfriend” isn’t good enough, and society hasn’t provided a new, better one yet. “Cory
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C.S. Lewis Explains How Governments Create ‘Tame Human Animals’0
- Culture
- November 4, 2016
Have you ever considered what type of school you would send your child to if you didn’t have to worry about cost? That question is one which EdChoice annually asks the American public. This year, they found that 83 percent of parents have a child attending public schools, but only 28 percent would keep that
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America Used to Elect its Presidents Way Differently0
- Education
- November 4, 2016
For the last year and a half, Americans have watched political contenders fly around the country explaining why he or she should be president of the United States. But it was not always done this way (and I’m not talking about airplanes). For the first half-century of our republic’s existence, one was not supposed to
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5 Reasons Parents Want Homework to Disappear0
- Culture
- November 4, 2016
Earlier this year, Texas teacher Brandy Young told parents she would not be giving homework throughout the year. Instead, Ms. Young encouraged families to spend homework time doing things together. The note went viral, suggesting that American parents are not big fans of homework. Neither, it seems, are parents in Spain. They have designated every
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