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  • Seeing Others as Collectively Evil Is the Root of All Evil

    Seeing Others as Collectively Evil Is the Root of All Evil0

    Philip Zimbardo, a former president of the American Psychological Association, observed that the American soldiers who committed atrocities at the Abu Ghraib prison were not inherently evil: “The line between good and evil is permeable. Any of us can move across it… I argue that we all have the capacity for love and evil —

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  • How Our Society Treats Prisoners ‘Like Animals’

    How Our Society Treats Prisoners ‘Like Animals’0

    About 2.2 million people reside in the approximately 5,000 prisons sprinkled across the U.S. today, more than any country in the world. They’ve been put there for being found guilty of violating any number of laws that society has deemed important enough to send people away. But what is the ultimate purpose of the prison

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  • Homer’s ‘Iliad’ is a Morality Tale

    Homer’s ‘Iliad’ is a Morality Tale0

    Sing, Muse, of Achilles’ anger and its devastation … and of the will of Zeus which was done. – Homer The opening lines of Homer’s epic, The Iliad, say it all. In these first few words, the poet betrays his purpose and unpacks the deepest meaning of his work. He begins with a prayer to

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  • Can You Pass This American Literature Quiz from 1911?

    Can You Pass This American Literature Quiz from 1911?0

    In 1911, American high schoolers used these questions to review and prepare for tests such as the New York Regents exam. Do you believe today’s high school students would be able to pass this test, or are schools failing to teach students about America’s literary history? Save this article to favorites

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  • Why People are so Crazy for Pokémon Go

    Why People are so Crazy for Pokémon Go1

    Like a lot of America, I’ve just become aware of the Pokémon Go craze. Apparently, the free app was just released on July 6, and its popularity has already led to servers crashing. For those who are still in the dark about Pokémon Go, here’s the gist of it: It terms itself a “location-based augmented

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  • T.S. Eliot Summed Up Modern Education in 2 Paragraphs

    T.S. Eliot Summed Up Modern Education in 2 Paragraphs0

    A very wise man once noted that there is nothing new under the sun. Perhaps it is for this reason that many who have gone before us are able to frame the issues of our day with such prophetic clarity. T.S. Eliot is no exception. In 1932, Eliot wrote an essay entitled Modern Education and

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  • Solzhenitsyn, Suffering, and the Meaning of Life

    Solzhenitsyn, Suffering, and the Meaning of Life1

    “Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.”                                                                                 – Alexander Solzhenitsyn   Older readers will hardly need reminding of

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  • Soaring Child Care Costs: Is there an Alternative?

    Soaring Child Care Costs: Is there an Alternative?0

    The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article on the soaring cost of child care for American families. As the WSJ explains, “the cost of child care and nursery school has increased nearly twice as fast as overall inflation since the recession ended” in 2009. Particularly striking is the change in child-rearing costs between 1960

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  • Philosopher Explains Why We Protest. All. The. Time.

    Philosopher Explains Why We Protest. All. The. Time.0

    I arrived to work this morning to news that 40 or 50 protestors had blocked a local highway during rush hour in protest of last week’s killing of Philando Castile.   Similar protests are taking place across the country, yet protests have become so prevalent that we tend to scarcely notice them unless it directly

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