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  • Many College Students are ‘Book Virgins’

    Many College Students are ‘Book Virgins’0

    To gain admittance to college in the 17th century, students had to be able to read and translate various Latin authors on sight. 100 years ago, students were required to have read various classical works before being admitted.  Today, however, many American students are being admitted to colleges without ever having read a book from

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  • Loners Are More Intellectual and Loyal Than Other People

    Loners Are More Intellectual and Loyal Than Other People0

    (Inspired by iHeartIntelligence) Speaking as a loner myself, I can tell you that there is a huge difference between a person who is socially rejected and a person who rejects social interaction.  And even though loners often get a bad wrap (I’m assuming because people are upset that they don’t want to be a part of

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  • How Emotions Hijack Our Reason

    How Emotions Hijack Our Reason0

    Most people have heard of the fight or flight response. We see a grizzly in the woods and our instinct is to run screaming. Makes total sense (though it will get you killed, so don’t do it). What many people don’t realize is that we often have this same response to intense emotional situations. Feelings

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  • Do Republicans have any Credibility on Spending?

    Do Republicans have any Credibility on Spending?0

    I recently had dinner with two friends, both of whom are successful attorneys involved in Republican politics. Conversation turned to the presidency of George W. Bush. When I mildly pooh-poohed the president’s record on spending, I was brought to task. “W had the best record on discretionary spending of any president since Nixon,” my friend

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  • Britain is leaving the EU – will other countries follow?

    Britain is leaving the EU – will other countries follow?0

    The British decision to leave the EU has been a long time in the making, but it does not lessen the shock that many politicians in the UK and across the EU are feeling. While London begins the long process of negotiating an exit from the European Union, some of our attention must now turn

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  • Why Do U.S. Schools Focus So Much on Self-Esteem?

    Why Do U.S. Schools Focus So Much on Self-Esteem?0

    When it comes to education, the U.S. system isn’t the one countries look to as a model to emulate. At least they shouldn’t, considering that the U.S. places 17th in reading, 21st in science, and 26th in math in international matchups. But according to The Atlantic, there is one country that is doing well in

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  • Why Are So Few Millennials Entrepreneurs?

    Why Are So Few Millennials Entrepreneurs?0

    There’s a popular trope right now that a ton of young people are founders and entrepreneurs. Thanks to a handful of young founders with a disproportionate impact (ala Mark Zuckerberg) and cultural figures like HBO’s Silicon Valley, you can easily trick yourself into believing that entrepreneurship is all the craze among young people. Hacker meetups, entrepreneurship clubs

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  • How Bonhoeffer Dealt with the Despair of World Chaos

    How Bonhoeffer Dealt with the Despair of World Chaos0

    Recent years have seen an interesting trend taking place amongst Americans: they’re less optimistic about the future. In fact, an international survey in 2014 found that only 29 percent of Americans believed their life would be better than that of their parents. This same sentiment was held by the young people in many other western

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  • Birth Rates Increased in Schools That Gave Out Condoms

    Birth Rates Increased in Schools That Gave Out Condoms0

    When I was an undergraduate, I recall a few of my roommates going to the campus health department and returning with (literally) a garbage bag full of condoms. (No one in our house was exactly a Casanova, but hey – they were free.) That was nearly 20 years ago. Today the discussion has changed. Earlier

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