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Are we living in Mill’s ‘Stationary State’?0
- History
- August 4, 2016
John Stuart Mill was a progressive in many ways. The English philosopher was a proponent of Benthem’s theory of utilitarianism, an abolitionist, and a feminist. (In fact, he was the first Member of Parliament to advocate women’s suffrage.) But Mill parted ways with other prominent thinkers—Marx and Nicolas Condorcet, among them—whose philosophies embraced man’s indefinite
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Why is the swear ‘c*nt’ way more offensive than ‘d*ck’?0
- Culture
- August 4, 2016
Donald Trump was called a “loud mouth dick” on CNN last night, as most people have probably heard by now. It was not bleeped out, and Anderson Cooper didn’t miss a beat. CNN has not issued an apology. The naughty word was uttered by Liz Mair, a political and communications consultant mostly famous for going
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The Arrogant Ignorance of the ‘Well-Educated’0
- Education
- August 3, 2016
On more than one occasion my essays for The Imaginative Conservative have been inspired by bumper stickers. Many moons ago, for instance, I wrote “The Wisdom and Wickedness of Women” in response to seeing a bumper sticker declaring that “Well Behaved Women Do Not Make History.” Recently, sitting in traffic, I saw this very same bumper sticker on
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Thomas Jefferson could teach Trump about American Greatness 0
- History
- August 3, 2016
“The American Dream is dead,” Donald Trump has proclaimed. Trump assures us not to worry because he is “gonna make it bigger and better and stronger than ever before.” And then comes Trumps’ oft-repeated punchline: “We are going to make America great again.” Where is American Greatness Found? In his book The Concept of Mind,
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Good Grammar in Text Messages Might Make You Look Like a Jerk 1
- Education
- August 3, 2016
When it comes to texting, the period, full stop, point – whatever you call it – has been getting a lot of attention. People have begun noticing slight changes to the way our smallest punctuation mark is deployed, from declarations that it’s going out of style to claims that it’s becoming angry. What they’re actually
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Do you have a photographic memory?0
- Entertainment
- August 3, 2016
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