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CIA Analysts Love to Read French Philosophy 0
- Culture
- March 2, 2017
CIA analysts have been reading Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes and Jean-Paul Sartre for years. The reasons might astound you. In a recent article in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Gabriel Rockhill, a Philosophy professor at Villanova University, explains why the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has a longstanding interest in post-World War
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What If Grocery Stores Worked Like Public Schools?0
- Culture
- March 1, 2017
One of the most important things to consider when buying a house is the quality of the grocery district. As the name implies, the grocery district determines which public grocery store you and your family get to use. District maps are drawn by the government to ensure each grocery store has an appropriate number of
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Immigration has become a ‘screaming match’ thanks to media bias 0
- Culture
- March 1, 2017
Front page pictures of protests, horror stories about innocent victims, editorials denouncing the whole idea — are we getting the whole story about President Trump’s immigration crackdown? Where’s the discussion about necessary immigration reform? MercatorNet asked Christopher Harper, Professor of Journalism in the School of Media and Communication at Temple University what he thinks. * *
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Did Dem Leaders Stay ‘Firmly Seated’ During the Carryn Owens Applause?0
- Politics
- March 1, 2017
Last night Carryn Owens became, in the words of the New York Times, the face of bravery and perseverance in America. The widow of Navy SEAL William (Ryan) Owens was invited to attend President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress Tuesday, less than one month after her husband was slain in the in the Yakla
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1 in 5 Can’t Name an Author, New Survey Finds 0
- Culture
- March 1, 2017
Last fall, Pew Research found that 27 percent of Americans had not read a book in the preceding year. Unfortunately, our friends across the pond aren’t much better in this respect. According to a 2014 survey, roughly 26 percent of adults in Great Britain admitted to not reading and finishing a book for pleasure. One
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Two Branches of Government Are All We Have Left, Scholar Says 0
- Education
- March 1, 2017
We learn in elementary school that the American federal system is divided into three equal branches: the legislative, executive, and judicial. But is that still the case? Mickey Edwards, a former Congressman from Oklahoma who spent 13 years teaching government at Harvard and Princeton, says no. Here is what he wrote in a recent
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