Culture

Thomas Sowell: Social Justice Philosophy Is a Blank Check for Government Power 0
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- March 15, 2018
“In politics, the great non-sequitur of our time is that 1) things are not right and that 2) the government should make them right. Where right all too often means cosmic justice, trying to set things right means writing a blank check for a never-ending expansion of government power.” This key passage from Thomas Sowell’s
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Philosopher Erich Fromm on Why People Fail at Love 0
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- March 14, 2018
Seeking advice about the qualities he should look for in a mate, an unmarried man in his 30s posted at the online sports forum of my alma mater. He invited comments on his list of top attributes: looks, camaraderie, cooking ability, love of the alma mater (this man attends every game), and patience. He thought
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City of Baltimore Will Bus Students To Anti-Gun Protest—at Cost of $100k 0
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- March 14, 2018
At a cost of $100,000, the city of Baltimore plans to provide 60 free buses to take students from its schools to planned anti-gun demonstrations in Washington, D.C. later this month. Many things could be said against this decision. For instance, it openly breaks with the notional political neutrality of public schools so as to
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John Locke’s 3 Tips for Raising Financially Independent Children 0
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- March 14, 2018
Compared to general life expectancy standards, my paternal grandfather died at quite a young age. I was only four when cancer took him down in a matter of weeks, so I don’t remember much about him. Yet in spite of this limited time, he did one thing which, in retrospect, was quite influential on my
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‘Happy You Day’: Mother’s Day Cards Go Gender-Neutral in UK 0
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- March 13, 2018
A grocery chain in the United Kingdom has drawn media attention for selling gender-neutral Mother’s Day cards to make the day more “transgender inclusive.” Waitrose, an upscale grocery, stocked transgender-friendly cards among its selection for Mother’s Day, which was March 11 in the U.K. Some examples of gender-inclusive card slogans and greetings include: “Happy You
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Do Gender Inclusion Policies Favor Girls?0
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- March 13, 2018
The Girls in Science and Engineering (GISE) summer camp at the University of Michigan (UM) was created as an “exciting one-week, day program for girls who have completed the 7th or 8th grade,” as the top part of the graphic above explains. The annual program’s main sponsor is the University of Michigan’s Women in Science
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