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  • Why Do Religious People Tend to Be Happier?

    Why Do Religious People Tend to Be Happier?0

    The results of a Pew Forum Survey, posted last week indicate that “highly religious people” are, on average, more engaged with family, volunteer more, and are happier overall than non-religious people. Before anybody concludes that “religion” is better than irreligion, however, three fair questions need to be raised and pondered. First, is this study isolated,

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  • Is America Ripe for a Dictator?

    Is America Ripe for a Dictator?0

    The creeping accelerating expansion of U.S. executive power and the state of the 2016 presidential primary has respected academics and pundits—on both the left and the right—a little nervous. Charges of an inevitable slide of republicanism to authoritarianism to dictatorship have been all the rage in 2016. Donald Trump has been the most prominent target

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  • Research Shows Why You Should Start Spending More Time Alone

    Research Shows Why You Should Start Spending More Time Alone0

    It can be hard finding time alone in a world that has most of us “connected” in some way, 24/7. The technology that has made its way into our daily lives is almost impossible to avoid using in this day and age. Between smartphones, tablets, iPods, laptops and regular desktop computers, we’re never far from

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  • How Anne Sullivan Worked Her ‘Miracle’ with Helen Keller

    How Anne Sullivan Worked Her ‘Miracle’ with Helen Keller0

    Most of us know teaching pioneer Anne Sullivan from “The Miracle Worker,” a story based on the autobiography of Helen Keller that has been made into several Broadway plays and movies. The name of the story derives from Mark Twain, who declared Sullivan such; and it’s hard to disagree with Twain’s assessment. In 1887, Sullivan,

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  • Study: Vocational Classes Keep High School Students Interested

    Study: Vocational Classes Keep High School Students Interested0

    Last year, Intellectual Takeout posted a popular quote from Mythbusters star Adam Savage on the need to reinstate shop class. Savage said: “If you want the kids’ test scores up, bring back band and bring back shop and get kids actually learning stuff instead of teaching them how to take a test.” The effectiveness of

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  • C.S. Lewis on the Decline of Reasoning

    C.S. Lewis on the Decline of Reasoning0

    The old adage declares that “there is nothing new under the sun.” Nevertheless, it’s hard not to be amazed when something written by past generations strikes to the heart of what we are dealing with today. So it was when I picked up a copy of C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters written in 1942. For

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