Culture

Do Gender Inclusion Policies Favor Girls?0
- Culture
- 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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Survey: Only One-Third of Students Think the Constitution Should Protect Hate Speech 0
- Culture
- March 13, 2018
College campuses have long been strongholds of free speech in all shapes and forms. That stance has seemed to shift in recent years, however, and because of many outbursts against speakers and students alike, the general public is beginning to believe that free speech is most threatened within the sacred halls of learning. A recent
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American Parents Spend 6 Hours Per Week on Their Kids’ Homework 0
- Culture
- March 12, 2018
Given the danger of violence in school these days, it’s not surprising that concerned parents would air their worries during water cooler chit-chat throughout the work day. Such was the recent case for a relative of mine. As she relayed to me, one of her co-workers noted that homeschooling seems to be the safest education
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Why Young Readers Need Real Books 0
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- March 12, 2018
A young lady I know won a Kindle in an academic contest. She is a voracious reader. In eighth grade, she enjoys Austen, Chesterton, Lewis, and Wodehouse, among many others. A trail of books seems to follow her everywhere she goes. Her parents, wary of potential negative effects of screens on growing minds, would have preferred
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What If Newspapers Reported the Real News about Human Progress?0
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- March 12, 2018
In his new book Enlightenment Now and in his McLaughlin Lecture at the Cato Institute this week, Steven Pinker made the point that we may fail to appreciate how much progress the world has made because the news is usually about bad and unusual things. For instance, he said, quoting Max Roser, if the media
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Jane Austen and the Power of the Marriage Plot 0
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- March 12, 2018
In Jane Austen’s most popular novel, Pride and Prejudice, there are two famous proposals of marriage, both addressed to the heroine Elizabeth Bennet. In one, the insufferable toady, Mr Collins, makes her an offer he thinks she can’t refuse; it is lustful and patronising in equal proportions. She makes several attempts to refuse him politely,
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