Culture

Copycatting Melania Trump 0
- Culture
- October 31, 2019
Recently, my friend John and I were discussing intelligence and the media. “Find any picture of reporters with that woman,” John said, “And you’ll see she’s the smartest person in the room.” “That woman” was Melania Trump. I only knew a little about Melania Trump, so I thought I’d do some digging. She speaks six
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What’s Behind the Explosion of Pet Costumes?0
- Culture
- October 31, 2019
I did a double take reading a headline on The Conversation the other day. It appears that pets plus Halloween makes for a lucrative enterprise: Americans are expected to spend US $8.8 billion on candy, costumes and decorations this year – or $86 for every person who plans to celebrate. That includes a half a
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First Look at Latest National Test Scores: Is It Cultural?0
- Culture
- October 31, 2019
The latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) – the “Nation’s Report Card” – scores are out, and they aren’t encouraging. But how discouraged should we be? The main NAEP tracks national, state, and selected local scores back to the early 1990s, though there have been some changes that have affected comparability among years, and not all states have participated
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C.S. Lewis Predicted Our Doom 1
- Culture
- October 31, 2019
Whose dystopia are we living in today? With Donald Trump as president and the world seemingly ablaze, answering that question can sometimes feel like gambling on a horse race. So bet big on George Orwell, as China’s terrifying social credit system makes his Nineteen Eighty-Four freshly relevant. Though the odds are still good on Aldous Huxley, whose Brave
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Famed Forensic Pathologist: Evidence Points to Homicide Rather Than Suicide in Epstein Case 0
- Culture
- October 30, 2019
A renowned forensic pathologist said Wednesday that the evidence in the case of disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein strongly suggests that he was strangled to death. Back in August, a New York medical examiner officially ruled Epstein’s death in a Manhattan jail cell a suicide by hanging. Dr. Michael Baden, an 85-year-old
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What the Death of ISIS Means for Us 0
- Culture
- October 30, 2019
On October 26th, Abu Bakhr Al-Baghdadi, leader of ISIS was killed. President Trump later reported that Al-Baghdadi’s successor has also been “terminated.” President Trump gave a press address Sunday morning confirming Al-Baghdadi’s death, and his killing himself and three of his children. Strangely, the Washington Post decided to change its headline from “Islamic State’s ‘terrorist-in-chief’ dies” to
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