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Boys Today Aren’t Getting Enough Time Around Men2
- Culture
- July 28, 2016
A basic premise of the apprenticeship model is that people best learn by example. Thus, if you want to become a skilled piano player, you study for years under a virtuoso. If you want to be a good electrician, you work under a master electrician for a period of time. And if you want
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Book Learning Is Not Enough1
- Culture
- July 28, 2016
In his preface to The Closing of the American Mind, professor Allan Bloom describes the main goal of education as a mission to help students answer the question, “What is man?” As Bloom goes on to note, many individuals believe that the answer to this question is found in extensive book learning. But Bloom believes
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Why we need to teach political philosophy in schools0
- Education
- July 27, 2016
What is the spectre haunting Europe today? It’s simple. The thing that truly dogs us, that really drags at our heels, is ignorance. Ignorance of the fundamental ideas at the heart of politics. Ignorance of the key terms of political argument: liberty, equality, power, justice, and so on. Ignorance of the subject matter of political
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What the ancient Greeks would have thought of Donald Trump0
- Culture
- July 27, 2016
You know them already, but you probably don’t have a name for them let alone an understanding of what drives them and why. They are called cholerics. They are one of the four temperaments identified in the proto-psychology of the ancient Greeks. And they have an innate sense of self-worth and ambition that drives them
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Report: College Students Spend Only 2.8 Hrs Per Day on Their Education0
- Education
- July 27, 2016
A report released last week by the Heritage Foundation shows that full-time college students spend less than three hours per day on “education-related activities.” Based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s American Time Use Survey from 2003–2014, during the academic year, the average full-time college student spent only 2.76 hours per day on
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People Should Be Able to Calmly Discuss Politics0
- Culture
- July 27, 2016
There’s a popular pie chart that’s been going around social media for some time now. It furthers the belief that arguing about politics is always and everywhere a futile endeavor: I agree that most political arguments today—both on and off social media—quickly devolve into angry name-calling. But I think this phenomenon says something more about
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Is Social Media Tearing Us Apart?0
- Culture
- July 27, 2016
It feels like 1968. How do I know this? Because everyone is saying so. (If you don’t believe me, look at this.) To be fair, there is grounds for the comparison. In 1968, the country was torn by urban violence, civil unrest, and (domestic) terrorism. College campuses were hotbeds and protesting was all the rage.
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Chicago: 75% of Murdered Are Black, 71% of Murderers Are Black0
- Culture
- July 27, 2016
After hearing about a woman attempting to start a sex-strike in Chicago, ultimately based on the Ancient Greek play Lysistrata, to end the gun violence, we thought it would be good to dig into the numbers a little bit. We wish we hadn’t. Simply put, Chicago has a massive Black-on-Black murder problem. All of the
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Calvin Coolidge’s Immigration Policy: Relevant Today?0
- Culture
- July 27, 2016
In early July, Pew Research released a report on the election issues most concerning to the general public. Perhaps not surprisingly, the report showed a decided increase in concern about immigration compared to previous election years. Such increases are likely spurred by talk of “building a wall,” the huge waves of migrants that Europe
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