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Everyone is Prejudiced 0
- February 2, 2016
In his book The Enemies of Reason, scientist Richard Dawkins proudly proclaimed, “Science replaces private prejudice with publicly verifiable evidence.” His sentiment expresses the modern intellectual ideal of reasoning freed from the trappings of any prejudices or biases. The problem is: no such thing exists. The word “prejudice” literally means to have judged something beforehand. Prejudices
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Another Lesson from Rome: Taxation, Bureaucracy, and the Rich vs. Poor 0
- Culture
- February 1, 2016
Parallels in history are never perfect, nonetheless lessons can be learned. In Mediaeval History: Europe from the Second to the Sixteenth Century (1935), Carl Stephenson, a professor of history at Cornell University, provides a captivating account of Rome’s decline in the late 3rd century as seen in monetary policy, taxation, and how the burden was
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Psychologist: Rules Squash Children’s Creativity 0
- Family
- February 1, 2016
If you would like your children to be creative, don’t give them very many rules. In fact, don’t really make them do much of anything. That seems to be the message of Adam Grant, professor of psychology for Wharton. In a New York Times op-ed, he encourages parents who desire their children to be creative
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Report Says British and American Students Have Low Basic Skills 0
- Education
- February 1, 2016
Late last week, scores of British media outlets were obsessing over a new report which found that their students “are the most illiterate in the developed world with many students graduating with only a basic grasp of English and maths.” In looking at the report from the OECD (the organization responsible for the international PISA
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Carol Burnett: ‘Cleverness’ in Entertainment is Becoming Extinct 0
- Culture
- February 1, 2016
Over the weekend, famed comedienne Carol Burnett received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). Before receiving the award, Burnett gave a brief interview to The Hollywood Reporter, offering an interesting critique of the entertainment industry in the process: “Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey
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There Used to Be No Such Thing as ‘Adolescence’ in America 0
- Culture
- February 1, 2016
The startling statistic of the day comes from a New York Post article written by Naomi Schaefer Riley. Riley highlights a new study from the University of Michigan which discovered that the number of young people age 20-24 with driver’s licenses had dropped from 91.8% to 76.7% in the last 30 years. Puzzling over the
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