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  • Should ethics professors have to behave ethically?

    Should ethics professors have to behave ethically?0

    This is an enduring dilemma in the area of ethics and one that has recently come to light with charges of unethical behavior brought against a prominent philosopher, Professor Thomas Pogge of Yale University. Pogge has been accused of manipulating younger women in his field into sexual relationships, a charge he has strenuously denied. Without making any judgment on

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  • Research Implies the Gender Pay Gap Might be a Fiction

    Research Implies the Gender Pay Gap Might be a Fiction0

    It’s become conventional wisdom that women make just 79 percent of what men do for the same work. But is this actually true? The most recent evidence suggests that the gender wage gap is much smaller than researchers have suggested and may have little to do with discrimination. The report, written by a pair of

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  • Relativism and the Danger of Half-Digested Shakespeare

    Relativism and the Danger of Half-Digested Shakespeare1

    This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.                                Shakespeare – Hamlet (sic) These words from arguably Shakespeare’s greatest play were quoted

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  • Journalist Explains Why Media Fails on Gun Control

    Journalist Explains Why Media Fails on Gun Control0

    Slate senior editor Rachael Larimore last week offered one of the smarter takes I’ve seen on why the media can never get the “healthy conversation” it wants on gun control: Gun-control advocates and their allies in the media will attack the gun-rights crowd as cold-hearted, stubborn, and out of touch. They will complain that no

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  • Getting a Permission Slip to Access the American Dream

    Getting a Permission Slip to Access the American Dream0

    The question of income inequality has become of one the most pivotal issues of modern politics. There are many elements that contribute to the income inequality question but a central theme among them is the fact that the “haves” are usually very skilled at keeping what they have from the “have-nots.” One form of keeping

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  • Choreless Generation Doesn’t Want Summer Jobs

    Choreless Generation Doesn’t Want Summer Jobs0

    I got my first summer job around age 11 when my elderly neighbor asked me to weed her garden. As I advanced through middle and high school, that once a month money-making enterprise expanded into bigger and better paying jobs – and more dealings with the general public. While such an experience may seem like

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  • Wise Parenting Uses Natural Consequences

    Wise Parenting Uses Natural Consequences0

    The great slogan of classical liberalism is “Life, Liberty, Property.” Essentially this means, don’t murder, enslave, or steal. And this in turn is essentially what we teach children when we say no hitting, bullying, or grabbing. Yet, when kids are introduced to the concept of government, suddenly murder/hitting (war, police brutality), slavery/bullying (conscription, regulation, prohibition,

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  • University Abandons Math Requirement, Embraces Diversity

    University Abandons Math Requirement, Embraces Diversity0

    I never was very fond of math. In fact – true confession – I did some pretty close research and fancy footwork to try to fulfill my two college math requirements in courses that were more conducive to my *ahem* right-brained tendencies. Like most things in life, I now see the benefit of those detested

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  • Mateen Transcript: Why are References to ISIS Being Scrubbed?

    Mateen Transcript: Why are References to ISIS Being Scrubbed?0

    The Department of Justice today released a transcript of the calls Omar Mateen made during the shooting rampage at an Orlando nightclub a week ago.  The transcript is incomplete, however. During a conversation with NBC’s Chuck Todd on Sunday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said references to Islamic terrorism would be removed. “What we’re not going to do is further proclaim this man’s pledges of

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