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People Without Meaningful Lives Seek Power Over Others 4
- Culture
- August 26, 2024
One of my more memorable exchanges with a student came in a principles of economics class. Part of the assignment for that week was chapters from Matt Ridley’s The Rational Optimist. Ridley compared the living standards of an average worker today with those of The Sun King, Louis XIV, in 1700. Some of my more ahistorical students
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Successful People Don’t Believe in Conspiracies 4
- Culture, Featured
- August 23, 2024
It seems impossible to deny that powerful forces are conspiring to suppress basic freedoms and impose top-down control over American society. Intelligence agencies team up with Big Tech to censor information, governments are marking political dissidents as “terror threats,” and presidential candidates are hand-picked by party elites. Looking around, I can’t help but feel that
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In With Teacher Apprenticeships, Out With Colleges of Education 0
- Education, MomThink
- August 23, 2024
Two persistent problems beset American schools. First, teachers must leave the classroom and become administrators or counselors to earn above the standard teacher salary. Second, colleges of education can’t prepare new teachers nearly as well as an apprenticeship under a veteran teacher who has consistently demonstrated mastery of the craft. Thankfully, K-12 education can rework how it prepares new teachers and
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Friday Comic: Philosophy of Nothing 0
- Entertainment
- August 23, 2024
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Soviet Britain and the Future of America 3
- Culture, Featured, International
- August 22, 2024
Editor’s note: Please note that this article contains discussion of crimes such as sexual assault. We believe the stories, while disturbing even when told with minimal detail, deserve mention and honest reporting. In recent weeks, riots have broken out across the U.K., with rival gangs of native Britons and Muslims clashing. The police response has
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What We Lost in the War on COVID 2
- Science, Featured, Health
- August 22, 2024
The news cycle moves so quickly these days that we can forget to dwell on major events. But tyranny thrives on a short attention span. Just a couple of years ago, we witnessed government dictates turn the entire world into a highly regimented military encampment. A Military Response: The Role of the National Security Council
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