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  • Science has next to nothing to say about moral intuitions

    Science has next to nothing to say about moral intuitions0

    For centuries, philosophers have been using moral intuitions to reason about ethics. Today, some scientists think they’ve found a way to use psychology and neuroscience to undermine many of these intuitions and advance better moral arguments of their own. If these scientists are right, philosophers need to leave the armchair and head to the lab

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  • Constitution at stake in this year’s election?

    Constitution at stake in this year’s election?0

    If Senate Republicans are true to their word, the next president of the United States will nominate Justice Antonin Scalia’s replacement. Given the age of several other members of the Supreme Court and rumors of others’ retirement, it is likely the next president will make as many as four nominations. This potentially dramatic change in

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  • California Overhauls its K-12 History Curricula

    California Overhauls its K-12 History Curricula0

    When it comes to education, summer is normally a downtime of rest and relaxation. That’s not the case, however, for California’s Department of Education. According to The Sacramento Bee, the state just released their newly rewritten history standards – standards which will likely be adopted by many of the other 49 states. So what exactly

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  • Are we living in Mill’s ‘Stationary State’?

    Are we living in Mill’s ‘Stationary State’?0

    John Stuart Mill was a progressive in many ways. The English philosopher was a proponent of Benthem’s theory of utilitarianism, an abolitionist, and a feminist. (In fact, he was the first Member of Parliament to advocate women’s suffrage.) But Mill parted ways with other prominent thinkers—Marx and Nicolas Condorcet, among them—whose philosophies embraced man’s indefinite

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  • Are Schools Replacing Parents?

    Are Schools Replacing Parents?0

    The last few years have seen a good deal of conversation on education standards, spawned in large part by the arrival of Common Core. But according to the education site Chalkbeat, some states are instituting standards in far more than reading and math: “Tennessee will spend the next year on the task as one of

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  • Thomas Jefferson could teach Trump about American Greatness

    Thomas Jefferson could teach Trump about American Greatness0

    “The American Dream is dead,” Donald Trump has proclaimed. Trump assures us not to worry because he is “gonna make it bigger and better and stronger than ever before.” And then comes Trumps’ oft-repeated punchline: “We are going to make America great again.” Where is American Greatness Found? In his book The Concept of Mind,

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  • The Arrogant Ignorance of the ‘Well-Educated’

    The Arrogant Ignorance of the ‘Well-Educated’0

    On more than one occasion my essays for The Imaginative Conservative have been inspired by bumper stickers. Many moons ago, for instance, I wrote “The Wisdom and Wickedness of Women” in response to seeing a bumper sticker declaring that “Well Behaved Women Do Not Make History.” Recently, sitting in traffic, I saw this very same bumper sticker on

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  • My Meeting with Solzhenitsyn

    My Meeting with Solzhenitsyn0

    Almost anyone of my generation will remember Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, he was a hero in the struggle against Soviet tyranny, as well as being one of the finest novelists and historians of the twentieth century. Back in the late-1990s, I had the inestimable honor to travel to Moscow

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  • Is All Lives Matter a Hateful Message?

    Is All Lives Matter a Hateful Message?0

    Last week, student leaders at the University of Houston drafted a bill giving the student body president emergency powers to punish one of its members, Vice President Rohini Sethi. Following the slaying of five police officers in Dallas, Sethi posted these two phrases on social media: “Forget #BlackLivesMatter; more like #AllLivesMatter” Her fellow student activists

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