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  • Does a Rape Culture Really Exist on College Campuses?

    Does a Rape Culture Really Exist on College Campuses?0

    Many people believe that the nation’s college campuses have become hotbeds of sexual assault. In June, after a student at Stanford University was convicted of rape but given a light sentence, Vice President Joe Biden wrote an open letter to the female victim: You were failed by a culture on our college campuses where one in five

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  • Are These Strange Star Signals Evidence of Alien Intelligence?

    Are These Strange Star Signals Evidence of Alien Intelligence?0

    Two astronomers from the Université Laval in Quebec say they discovered unusual spectral emanation while studying a set of stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. In a recently published paper, the authors suggested this “spectral modulation” could be the work of aliens manipulating starlight to contact other civilizations. The signals cannot be caused by

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  • $180 College Textbook Says Capitalism Makes People Poor

    $180 College Textbook Says Capitalism Makes People Poor0

    • October 27, 2016

    Students of sociology at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne are receiving a rather banal message on economics: capitalism is evil. “The basic tenet of capitalism—who gets what is determined by private profit rather than by collective need—explains the persistence of poverty. The primacy of maximizing profit works to promote poverty in several ways. First, employers

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  • Why Professors Are Writing Crap That Nobody Reads

    Why Professors Are Writing Crap That Nobody Reads19

    Professors usually spend about 3-6 months (sometimes longer) researching and writing a 25-page article to submit to an academic journal. And most experience a twinge of excitement when, months later, they open a letter informing them that their article has been accepted for publication, and will therefore be read by… … an average of ten

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  • Why Most People Today Are Acting Rather Than Thinking

    Why Most People Today Are Acting Rather Than Thinking0

    If you were one of those people who patiently suffered watched the 2016 presidential debates, you probably noticed that both candidates are ready to take action and implement big plans. Build a wall. Provide free college for everyone. And on it goes. But when each of the candidates is given more time to talk about

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  • The Best Way to Teach Kids to Hate History? Rely Only on Textbooks

    The Best Way to Teach Kids to Hate History? Rely Only on Textbooks0

    Whenever I hear that only 12 percent of American students are proficient in history, I have to shake my head in amazement. How in the world can so few students be proficient in a subject that’s so fascinating? Historian David McCullough may have an answer to that question. Several years ago he noted that contemporary

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  • A Culturally Literate Person Knows the Bible

    A Culturally Literate Person Knows the Bible2

    While visiting friends this summer, I had the opportunity to spend some time at the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina. As the largest home in the United States, Biltmore is a time capsule of valuable treasures spanning everything from Napoleon’s chess set to tapestries from sixteenth-century Belgium. It was while viewing one of these tapestries

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  • ‘Sweet Land of Liberty’: Colin Kaepernick and Freedom of Speech

    ‘Sweet Land of Liberty’: Colin Kaepernick and Freedom of Speech0

    Every week for two months, quarterback Colin Kaepernick of the American professional football team the San Francisco 49ers has refused to stand during the playing of his country’s national anthem.  He has instead knelt down as his protest of alleged systematic racism in American society and in solidarity with the powerful Black Live Matters movement. 

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  • The Real Problem with American Education?

    The Real Problem with American Education?0

    • October 25, 2016

    Since its beginnings, America has directed most of its educational energies toward creating average students. Already in 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville observed in his classic Democracy in America, “I do not believe that there is a country in the world where, in proportion to the population, there are so few uninstructed and at the same time

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