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NPR Questions Bernie Sanders’ Free College Plan0
- Education
- February 17, 2016
The presidential election is over eight months away and already the nomination process has seen surprising twists. The most recent is the rising popularity of Bernie Sanders. Young people are one of Sanders’ most supportive demographic groups, and his offer of free public college might partially explain why. But as NPR’s Anya Kamenetz reports, Sanders’
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Revered Philosopher: Children Actually Want Parents to Lay Down the Law0
- Culture
- February 17, 2016
Over the years I’ve heard various parents explain their approach to parenting in the following way: “We really don’t want to force our children to ______ (fill in the blank with ’do chores,’ ’go to church,’ ‘practice an instrument,’ or any number of other responsibilities). We want them to make their own decisions and decide
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Incident Highlights a Problem with Transgender Bathroom Laws0
- Politics
- February 17, 2016
This past December, Washington State enacted a new policy that allows people to choose bathrooms based on whatever gender they identify with. The law affects public and private buildings such as schools, restaurants, stores, and places of employment. Predictably, a recent incident has already highlighted that such laws are fraught with many problems, one in
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Psychiatrist: Not Everything is a Mental Disease0
- Science
- February 17, 2016
Some readers might recognize the name “Theodore Dalrymple.” It’s the pen name of the iconoclastic British psychiatrist Anthony Daniels, who in semi-retirement keeps on writing books. His twenty-third is Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality (2015). An interview he gave soon after the book’s publication sums up his thesis, which is rather unconventional even if,
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Top Ten Ways to Be a Man1
- Culture
- February 15, 2016
In an age in which tweed jackets have been replaced by sweatshirts, pants have holes and shoes lack laces, and the “un-done” look is considered attractive, maybe we need to reconsider our codes of conduct, especially when it comes to the art of being a man. Thus, the question is begged: What makes a man?
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Antonin Scalia, RIP0
- Politics
- February 15, 2016
Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative whom even the soi-disant socialist Bernie Sanders has called “brilliant” and “colorful,” died on Saturday in Arizona. Whether writing for the majority or in dissent, Scalia usually elicited strong reactions. It appears that is no different in death than in life. Thus, the Twitter storm among some on the Left
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