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Philosopher: Chance is Baked into the Cake of Democracy 0
- History
- January 10, 2017
The Trump victory, and the general disaster for Democrats this year, was the victory of ignorance, critics moan. Writing in Foreign Policy, Georgetown’s Jason Brennan called it “the dance of the dunces” and wrote that “Trump owes his victory to the uninformed.” New York Times columnist Neil Irwin noted the unprecedented list of inexperts and
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Meryl Streep’s Comments Were Boring. That’s All 0
- Culture
- January 10, 2017
My first feeling for Meryl Streep was embarrassment. The three-time Oscar-winner’s speech at the Golden Globes on Sunday brought to mind a cocktail reception I once attended. A nice young woman couldn’t resist injecting politics into polite conversation in mixed company. It was awkward for everyone but her. People politely smiled, much like the actors
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Thomas Paine on the Dangers of Elitism 0
- Culture
- January 10, 2017
On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine published a little pamphlet known as Common Sense. The pamphlet would become one of the many sparks lighting the fire for the American Revolution. Thomas Paine made any number of important and influential comments in his little book including the following: “Men who look upon themselves born to reign,
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You are here Georgia Tech Prof. Resigns, Cites Politicization of Academia 0
- Education
- January 10, 2017
A climate scientist at Georgia Institute of Technology, Dr. Judith Curry, abruptly resigned last week citing “craziness in the field of climate science” and the politicization of academia. Via her blog, Climate Etc.: Effective January 1, I have resigned my tenured faculty position at Georgia Tech…. Technically, my resignation is a retirement event, since I
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Study: Textbooks Are Super Biased 0
- Culture
- January 10, 2017
Unless I miss my guess, many of us have never been huge fans of textbooks. They’re boring. Impersonal. And as a new study published in Current Psychology reports, textbooks may also be… biased. Researchers Christopher Ferguson, Jeffrey Brown, and Amanda Torres set out to explore this bias specifically in regard to the basic psychology textbooks
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Did Plato Get His Ideas from the Bible?2
- History
- January 9, 2017
T.S. Eliot once wrote that “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.” If that’s the case, then according to some influential past authorities, Plato was a “mature poet” when it comes to his ideas on God and creation. The other day I was reading St. Augustine’s (354-430) De Doctrina Christiana—a treatise that played an enormous role
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