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Wolff’s ‘Fire and Fury’ Shows the Founders Were Right About the Presidency 0
- History
- January 9, 2018
Michael Wolff’s new book Fire and Fury is an exposé of President Trump. If even half of it is true, it is hard to not feel disgusted and terrified. Those who work with Trump in the White House paint a portrait of a man who combines moral bankruptcy with off-the-charts stupidity. Apparently, our president is
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The Future Will Not Be Dull 0
- Culture
- January 9, 2018
As the current political and social transformations of the nation sets into place, and awareness of it is more and more realized, there is inevitably a psychological sense in many Americans that the changes are permanent. Many who feel this are those who have opposed them, and who have believed they had a stake in
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Could You Pass Thomas Edison’s Hiring Test? Probably Not.0
- Education
- January 9, 2018
The other day I stumbled across an exam compiled by the famous inventor Thomas Edison. The exam consisted of 146 questions and was used by Edison to screen applicants for executive positions in his laboratory. I began looking through the questions, and to my dismay, realized that I would have fared quite badly had I
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Child Sexbots and Dolls Probably Aren’t the Cure for Pedophilia 0
- Family
- January 9, 2018
Shin Takagi is a pedophile. He has never acted on his impulses, he told the Atlantic in a recent interview, but is attracted to children. This is a problem for Takagi. After reading the article, one senses that he feels an intense desire for minors but also believes children should be protected from people like
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How a Green Day Song Can Help us Understand the Christian Festival Epiphany 0
- Entertainment
- January 8, 2018
“Religion is a bunch of bullshit,” Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said in a 2010 interview with vocal atheist Bill Maher. If you’re not familiar with Green Day, they’re the band that taught you to stick it to the man if you came of age in the late 90s and early 2000s. In sixth
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The Instant Pot Can Teach Us a Lot About Capitalism (and the Key to Entrepreneurial Success)0
- Economics
- January 8, 2018
You don’t have to search far to read claims that capitalism is centered on greed and selfishness. For some, the assertion seems self-evident as they read, for example, stories of pharmaceutical companies dramatically increasing the price of important drugs. Those who hold a “capitalists are greedy” usually belief fail to distinguish between crony capitalists—who make
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