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Trump Should Persuade Congress to Stop Subsidizing Big Bird 0
- Economics
- November 30, 2016
A lot of ink has already been spent on what President-Elect Donald Trump should do in his first 100 days after he is sworn in Jan. 20, 2017. Ceasing federal contributions to the Corporation on Public Broadcasting—which has an operating budget of $445 million budget, and funds both National Public Radio and the Public
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5 Reasons Why Fake News is Here to Stay 0
- Education
- November 30, 2016
In case you haven’t been paying attention, mainstream news outlets have been screaming about the problem of fake news on social media. Some have argued that the platform engineers should filter out this false content. Others blame cyber-entrepreneurs for the fake news. Still others think it’s caused by web-bots. And now there’s even speculation that
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Wahlberg: ‘Out of Touch’ Celebs Should Shut Up About Politics 0
- Entertainment
- November 30, 2016
It’s almost a rite of passage for Hollywood celebrities to tell people in flyover country how to think and for whom to vote. At least one A-list celebrity had a suggestion for them: stop doing that. In a recent interview, two-time Oscar nominee Mark Wahlberg made it clear he was not a fan of actors
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PC Killed One Professor’s Popular Philosophy Course 0
- Culture
- November 30, 2016
As Intellectual Takeout has explained before, there’s a bit of a void when it comes to rational discourse in America’s high schools. So much so, that some students are taking things into their own hands with after school clubs in order to provide a platform for informed, reasonable dialogue about today’s issues. But unfortunately, it’s
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Did Apple Really Kick Breitbart’s App From iTunes?0
- Politics
- November 30, 2016
Some right-wing sites—InfoWars, Gateway Pundit, and several others—are reporting that Breitbart’s app was kicked from the iTunes store by Apple. The word “purge” is being used. Breitbart is one of the most-trafficked websites in the U.S. and boasted nearly 170 million page views in October alone, according to media reports. So the idea that its app
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Can the Virtue of Simple Living be Rediscoverd in a Postmodern World?0
- Culture
- November 29, 2016
The good life is the simple life. Among philosophical ideas about how we should live, this one is a hardy perennial; from Socrates to Thoreau, from the Buddha to Wendell Berry, thinkers have been peddling it for more than two millennia. And it still has plenty of adherents. Magazines such as Real Simple call out
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