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Ben Franklin’s 3 Tips for People Actually Interested in Rational Debate 0
- Culture
- January 7, 2016
Benjamin Franklin’s famed Autobiography portrays a bright, talented young man, eager to be a success, but with a touch of mischief coursing through his veins. Reading between the lines, one can almost picture the spirited young Franklin as the equivalent of a modern-day Facebook troll. But something happened to Franklin in his late teens that
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Will Germany be Muslim in a generation?0
- Culture
- January 7, 2016
In The European, German Adorjan Kovacs makes the argument that based on demographics, the primarily Muslim migrants from the Middle East and North African will actually become the dominant population group within a generation. The Google translate of the article is a little bit rough, but his key point is that while there are 80
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Academic Writing is Becoming a Caricature of Itself 0
- Education
- January 7, 2016
Much of modern postsecondary intellectual discourse emblematizes a regressive displacement of phraseology toward loquacious amalgamations intended to subvert intelligibility. Which is academic-speak for “Most academic writing these days is crap.” We’ve written on this subject before. In no other time in history have so many professors written so much that is unintelligible to the public,
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The Government Changes Food Recommendations … Again 0
- Culture
- January 7, 2016
Judging from the USDA food guidelines released this morning from our ever-wise government, it’s once again permissible to increase our salt intake, eat eggs, and skip breakfast if we so wish. Don’t agree with those guidelines? Never fear. We probably only have to wait for a few years until they revert to their original
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Christianity’s Intellectual Foundation 0
- Culture
- January 7, 2016
Christianity is often derided as “unintellectual”. Yet, if you actually spend any time with those making the most dogmatic arguments about the “stupidity” of religion, particularly Christianity, you get the feeling that few of those individuals have actually engaged in any meaningful way with the intellectual tradition of Christianity. In The Spirit of Early Christian
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1st Century Historian: Education is “The One and Essential Thing”0
- Education
- January 6, 2016
The ancient Greek thinker Plutarch (46-120 A.D.) is best known for his historical work Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans and his collection of essays entitled Moralia. This latter collection begins with a wonderful essay (or, at least, it’s attributed to him) on “The Education of Children.” I’ll discuss the rest of the essay
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