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Pope Francis Has Forgotten the Church’s Own Grand Libertarian Legacy 0
- Economics
- May 1, 2017
Well, it’s a pretty big deal when the Pope attacks libertarianism by name. It’s even more interesting when my Spanish-language publisher believes that the Pope, in an academic paper, was attacking language used by me in particular, by implication but without citation. In a choice passage, the Pope says that libertarianism “deceptively proposes a ‘beautiful
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3 Warning Signs Your Life is a Sitcom About Nothing 0
- Culture
- May 1, 2017
Mo Gawdat is the Chief Business Officer at Google X—the “moonshot’ division of Google that is responsible for speculative projects, such as Google’s driverless cars. Devastated by the sudden and unexpected loss of his beloved teenage son, Ali, Gawdat decided to put his engineering mindset into analyzing what produces happiness. Happiness, Gawdat writes in his
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Millennial Journalists Behaving Badly 0
- Culture
- May 1, 2017
On Friday, former Wall Street Journal writer Bret Stephens wrote his first column for the New York Times. And boy, did it cause a fuss. The column, headlined “Climate of Complete Certainty,” politely pushed back on the idea that the narrative of climate change is settled science. Stephens, referencing an article penned by Times writer
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What Princess Charlotte’s Portrait Teaches Us About Raising Adults 0
- Culture
- May 1, 2017
Whenever a picture of one of the royal children comes out, it’s sure to be plastered over every magazine and newspaper for days to come. Such is the case with the latest birthday portrait of Princess Charlotte (shown above), which Kensington Palace posted on its Instagram page. As has been noted, the portrait shows that
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Why Joel Osteen is the Perfect Pastor for Our Times 5
- Culture
- April 28, 2017
For years, I’ve sort of known who Joel Osteen is. If you walk into a bookstore, his giant, smiling face seems everywhere. But until a couple of weeks ago, I had never heard Osteen preach. Meet the Press had just concluded this last Sunday, and I was slow to turn the TV off. As I
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Children Have Amazing Powers of Memorization… So Why Aren’t Schools Using Them?4
- Education
- April 28, 2017
According to an article in the British Psychological Society’s Research Digest, preschool-age children have a special talent for memorizing and remembering rhymes. As the Digest explains, a recent study found that, compared to their parents and other older adults, young children are able to recall “nearly twice as many correct words” from the rhyming stories
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