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Does This Philosopher’s 30-Year-Old Observation Explain the Current Social Upheaval?0
- Culture
- January 19, 2017
The last couple of years have been marked by numerous outbreaks of violence, demands and protests, and in general, great social unrest and upheaval. For those who have watched life unravel around them, such unrest can be confusing, causing many to sit back and wonder why we continue to experience such troublesome explosions. There are
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Benjamin Franklin’s 4 Steps to Becoming a Great Writer 0
- Education
- January 18, 2017
If Twitter or Facebook had existed during the colonial period, Benjamin Franklin likely would have been one of its wittiest contributors, as evidenced by his pithy words of wisdom in Poor Richard’s Almanac. But Franklin wrote far more than witty slogans. In fact, his personal correspondence, policy proposals, and other writings take up a full
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High School Apprenticeships: A New Path to Prosperity 0
- Culture
- January 18, 2017
It’s no secret that the college degree has long been considered a path to success. It’s also no secret that those who take that pathway are more often than not ending up in the mire of student debt – and struggling to get out. This dilemma has caused many to look elsewhere for alternatives to
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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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