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  • When Finance and Philosophy Clash

    When Finance and Philosophy Clash0

    Few people in our materialistic and avaricious age would consider making money a moral issue. Isn’t it merely one of the bare necessities of life? We speak of a “healthy profit” but nobody speaks about an unhealthy profit. To do so would be absurd, wouldn’t it? Not if you listen to some of the great

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  • The Problem With America’s Legal System

    The Problem With America’s Legal System0

    The political culture is buzzing with controversy surrounding institutional racism, police brutality, victimless crime persecution, and so forth. People are talking about the desperate need for criminal justice reform. But that would only scratch the surface of the real problem. A more fundamental take begins with the tragedy of the commons. The tragedy of the

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  • Political Science Needs More Viewpoint Diversity

    Political Science Needs More Viewpoint Diversity0

    Would academic political science benefit from more viewpoint diversity? Let’s start with the good news, which is that political science isn’t nearly the worst-off discipline on campus. This is not because its intellectual demographics are so great. Surveys, such as this one, of faculty members’ voter registration data suggest that poli sci does not contain nearly as

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  • Millennials Really Don’t Like People

    Millennials Really Don’t Like People0

    Bashing millennials is sort of a national pastime. So I thought I’d join in. It turns out millennials may have an aversion to interacting with people, which could be impacting their ability to find work and, er, mate. Via Salon: According to a survery by Frisch’s Restaurants Inc. — the Cincinnati-based company that operates Big Boy Restaurants

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  • 5 Foods That Can Help Depression

    5 Foods That Can Help Depression0

    Food is one of the most common things we turn to when life isn’t going our way. Something about eating delicious stuff makes the pain or anxiety we’re feeling a little less awful. But, if you’re one of the 350 million people who suffers from depression, you know all too well that it takes a lot more

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  • Who Said It: Philosopher or Pokemon?

    Who Said It: Philosopher or Pokemon?0

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  • Should We Stop Calling Liberals ‘Liberal’?

    Should We Stop Calling Liberals ‘Liberal’?0

    When Americans use the term “liberal” today, they are usually describing a person or group that holds political or moral views associated with the Democratic Party or the “Left.” But it was not always so. In fact, this contemporary usage is the result of an etymological evolution—or devolution, depending on whom you ask. As a

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  • Sexting a sign of a Committed Relationship?

    Sexting a sign of a Committed Relationship?0

    Why do people sext? Why do they send racy or naked photos or videos and sexually loaded texts? For a short-term hookup, sexting might seem like a direct way to get what you want – or at least try to. But according to my research, sexting is actually most likely to occur within a committed

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  • Israeli Filmmaker Disinvited from Syracuse Univ. Film Festival

    Israeli Filmmaker Disinvited from Syracuse Univ. Film Festival0

    Shimon Dotan, a Romanian born award-winning filmmaker from Israel, was disinvited from a film conference at Syracuse University. Dotan reportedly had received what he thought was an invitation to screen his latest film, The Settlers, which deals with Israeli settlements on the West Bank. Then the filmmaker was told by Professor M. Gail Hamner, a

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