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How YouTube AutoPlay Becomes Your Child’s Worst Nightmare 0
- Culture
- February 20, 2019
I myself am not yet a parent, but I can understand why parents often get overwhelmed. Far be it from me to judge any parents who feel the need to hand their kids the iPhone for a few minutes now and then. But please, keep your small children away from YouTube. Sure, they’ll probably start
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What One Professor Learned While Teaching Conservative Political Theory to Liberal Students 0
- Culture
- February 20, 2019
Several years ago, liberal professor Jonathan Haidt made a surprising statement about today’s college students. Explaining their inability to handle conflict or anything contrary to their own opinions, Haidt noted: This makes it impossible to teach. This makes it impossible to have an intellectual community. I’m a liberal Professor and my liberal students scare me.
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Why the “Golden Rule” is an Obstacle to the Government’s Agenda 0
- Culture
- February 19, 2019
The golden rule—“Do to others as you would have them do to you” being the most common variant I have heard–may be the most common ethical touchstone for human interactions. After all, Simon Blackburn wrote in his 2001 book, Ethics, that the Golden Rule is “found in some form in almost every ethical tradition.” I doubt
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Why Stress Is One of the Best Predictors of High Life Satisfaction 0
- Culture
- February 19, 2019
My life is messed up, why can’t I get my act together? Most of us have heard a variation of this talk track in our heads, or we’ve heard it from others. If only, we think, I didn’t have this problem, then everything would be all right. We feel burdened by what seems to be
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Teaching Children ‘No’ in the Era of #MeToo 0
- Culture
- February 19, 2019
Children aren’t born knowing what no means. You have to teach them. But how? For starters, you have to know what it means yourself. Most people seem to think no means something such as: “I say no and the other person will obey me because they will realize the sacredness of my person.” While that
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Child Deaths Fall Across the World, No Thanks to Marxism 0
- Economics
- February 19, 2019
It has never been a safer world in which to be a child. According to the UN, in 1950, most of the world had a child death rate (by age 5) of over 20%, while only a few countries, such as the United States, Cuba, Canada, England, Australia, and New Zealand, had child death rates
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