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- Entertainment
- August 3, 2016
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Why moral education should involve moral philosophy1
- Education
- August 2, 2016
Ethics are increasingly a part of the school curriculum, and practical introductory classes in applied ethics are part of the training that nurses, scientists and soldiers undergo. Ethical education is ubiquitous, even though it may not always involve complicated theoretical debates – but should it include a dose of philosophy? There are powerful reasons for
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Why cooking from scratch is still important1
- Culture
- August 2, 2016
When I was in 6th grade, my mother bravely invited 10 of my friends to a local church kitchen and taught them how to make apple pie. If such a scenario leaves you envisioning a scene of mass destruction, you’d be close. After all, our casualties that day only included one upset bowl of cinnamon
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Central planners have a long history of controling birth0
- Culture
- August 2, 2016
Even after all these years of experience, socialism still has a reputation for being a humane alternative to capitalism. It’s preposterous because socialism means controlling or stealing people’s property, whereas capitalism mean nothing more or less than the freedom to own, accumulate, and trade property. But that’s not all that socialism means. It also means
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Can’t stand Hillary or Trump? Here’s what you must do.1
- Politics
- August 2, 2016
I can’t recall an election in which the two leading candidates were more reviled in both breadth and depth. The rejoinder I keep hearing is that 2016 is the Lesser of Two Evils Election. The data bears this out. A poll conducted in May by the Washington Post found that 57 percent of people
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Award-Winning Teacher: 8 Problems Plaguing Children2
- Culture
- August 2, 2016
Shortly after being named New York teacher of the year in the early 1990s, John Taylor Gatto wrote a public letter of resignation, explaining that he could no longer be a part of a system which hurt children and families. Following his resignation, Gatto released a book of essays called Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden
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Are we witnessing the birth of a Revolution?0
- History
- August 2, 2016
The Modern Era was born with a revolution. So begins Jacques Barzun’s seminal history, From Dawn to Decadence. Martin Luther might not have intended to ignite a revolution when he pounded his 95 theses into the door of Wittenberg’s All Saints’ Church on Oct. 31, 1517. (This practice was not uncommon in Luther’s day; it was a
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Are We Living in T.S. Eliot’s ‘Waste Land’?0
- Culture
- August 2, 2016
It’s almost a century since T. S. Eliot shocked the world with the avant garde innovation of “The Waste Land,” the fragmentary form of which reflected the fragmented brokenness of the modern world that it satirized. Like a modern-day inquisitor, Eliot questioned the value of modernity: “What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
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Unlawful gun owners commit 80 percent of gun crimes0
- Culture
- August 1, 2016
Lawful gun owners accounted for just 18 percent of gun violence, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh. Researchers analyzed 762 cases in which a gun was recovered by the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police Firearm Tracking Unit (FTU). “Most perpetrators (79%) were carrying a gun that did not belong to
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