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  • Chesterton: Newspapers are ‘the hobbies of a few rich men’

    Chesterton: Newspapers are ‘the hobbies of a few rich men’0

    If anything positive has come about from the 2016 presidential campaign season, it would be that the press has revealed its true character. Complaints abound from Americans of all stripes that “the media” is more interested in driving its own narrative than simply informing the public. In his 1908 book Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton wrote about

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  • Scientists: Funny People are Smarter

    Scientists: Funny People are Smarter0

    This may come as a surprise or it may not, but according to a 2011 study from researchers at the University of New Mexico, funny people seem to be a bit smarter than your average person.  The University of New Mexico asked 400 psychology students to complete measures of abstract reasoning ability and verbal intelligence

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  • Are We the ‘Last Men’?

    Are We the ‘Last Men’?0

    Perhaps Friedrich Nietzsche’s most recognizable title is Thus Spake Zarathustra, in which he deals with some of the recurring themes in his works such as the “death of God,” the will to power, and the Superman.   As I mentioned the other day, Nietzsche had perceived that the foundation of European morality had been undermined

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