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Are You Unconsciously Racist?0
- Culture
- January 18, 2017
Academic psychology recently got a wake-up call. It’s not that the results of most psychological experiments are irreproducible. That’s hardly news. Instead, the highly acclaimed measure of unconscious racism, the Implicit-association Test (IAT), does not pass scientific muster. This revelation wouldn’t matter so much except that the IAT is already widely accepted. Many psychologists believe
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The Mob Grows in Strength…0
- Culture
- January 18, 2017
The herd mentality. The susceptibility to propaganda. The philistine disdain for higher ideals. The inability to calmly entertain and discuss ideas. The loss of virtue. Many of us are troubled by these trends that we see in society today, for they signal that “the mob” is growing in strength. And all of it, according to
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Would Bradley Manning’s Sentence Have Been Commuted?0
- Culture
- January 18, 2017
President Obama defied the advice of his secretary of defense on Tuesday, opting to commute the 35-year prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. Army soldier. Manning, once known as Bradley Manning, was convicted on 20 charges in 2013 after stealing hundreds of thousands of government files and selling them to WikiLeaks. One person
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Don’t Be Outraged by this Teacher’s Dating Advice. Pass it On!0
- Culture
- January 18, 2017
About a decade ago, my husband took me to dinner at the famous 21 Club in New York. The former speakeasy opened in 1930 and still has an old-fashioned air about it. After staring at the menu for a few minutes, I looked up puzzled. “Psst, I don’t see any prices,” I whispered. My husband
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Education Leader Explains 4 Reasons Why Today’s Students Can’t Write 0
- Education
- January 17, 2017
If you’ve endured a peer review session in college or been the lucky one to sort through job applications for the opening at your office, you’ve probably discovered a sad truth about Americans: They can’t write. Marc Tucker, a leading expert in the world of education, recently had the latter experience. As he explained in
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‘Classical Education’ Today Isn’t Very Classical 0
- Education
- January 17, 2017
The number of schools that offer a “classical education” is growing. It’s believed by many to offer a more rigorous alternative to the standard curriculum offered by the education system today. But most people still view classical education as merely a nostalgic throwback to the past that fails to prepare students for the contemporary world
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