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Snowden: Stop Putting So Much Faith (and Fear) in Presidents 0
- Politics
- November 15, 2016
Whistleblower ?and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden remains a fugitive at large, but that didn’t stop him from popping up and chiming in on the recent presidential election. Snowden, who in 2013 blew the lid on the NSA’s massive covert surveillance program, recently appeared on camera via livestream to talk about privacy in an event hosted by
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Building Walls for Protection is Not Immoral or Unchristian 0
- Philosophy
- November 15, 2016
The building of walls has been very much in the news over the past week or so. There is, of course, the famous or infamous wall that President Elect Trump has promised to build along the Mexican border. And then there are the recent comments by Pope Francis, seen as a thinly-veiled intervention by the
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Psychologist: ‘Parenting Correctness’ Leading Parents Astray 0
- Culture
- November 15, 2016
The other day, NPR published a glowing article describing the decline in spanking over the last several decades. Parents, it seems, are resorting to other forms of non-physical punishment, including “time-outs.” I thought this was interesting, particularly since the generation that grew up under this switch in discipline methods seems to now be exhibiting signs
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9 Eyebrow-Raising Numbers From Trump’s Surprising Win 0
- Economics
- November 14, 2016
We are still in the immediate aftermath of the US Presidential Elections, a surprise upset result that has resulted in millions of words being written and many surveys, postmortems, predictions and howls of anguish and triumph being unleashed. So here’s one more to that pile. As I mentioned in my last blogpost before the election,
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Why Big Media Got Trump and Brexit So Wrong 0
- International
- November 14, 2016
In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election, the US media has embarked on a flurry of self recrimination. Much of what they discuss applies equally to the UK media and the problems with news coverage of the EU referendum. There is no doubt the two big political campaigns of 2016 have thrown into stark relief
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Why Men Love Tinder and Women Hate it 0
- Culture
- November 14, 2016
The last two years has seen an explosion of dating apps such as Tinder and Precisely. Predictions about the impact of these apps can veer into the extreme, many foreseeing a breakdown in communication and “traditional” dating practices. Amid these calls, it can be observed that this is somewhat premature. Yes, dating apps have enjoyed
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