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  • Give the Nazis What They Want

    Give the Nazis What They Want0

    If you called Donald Trump a Nazi, he’d probably take offense, even though his nationalism is socialistic. If you called Bernie Sanders a Nazi, you’d be dismissed out of hand, though his socialism is avowedly nationalistic. But did you know that Adolf Hitler himself took offense when the word was applied to him and his

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  • Those with Student Loan Debt: Do They Only Have Themselves to Blame?

    Those with Student Loan Debt: Do They Only Have Themselves to Blame?0

    Man goes to college. Man takes out loans to pay for college. Man graduates and is surprised to discover how burdensome it is to pay back those loans. It’s a familiar story repeated in outline by Samual Garner in a highly-read piece for Slate this week. But Garner’s story has this one unique detail: he graduated

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  • “Risk Compensation”: A Paradox Whose Time May Have Come

    “Risk Compensation”: A Paradox Whose Time May Have Come0

    “Risk compensation” is the theory that adopting certain safety measures can actually increase risky behavior by unduly increasing people’s sense of security. In a Washington Post article earlier this month, Terence McCoy reported on a man who wants to apply the theory to football. Erik Swartz, a University of New Hampshire professor of kinesiology, believes

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  • 10 Quotes from the Highly Influential Karl Popper

    10 Quotes from the Highly Influential Karl Popper0

    • January 27, 2016

    1) “True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.”   2) “The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.”   3) “Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem

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  • Is Hillary’s Feminism Hurting Her Campaign?

    Is Hillary’s Feminism Hurting Her Campaign?0

    In a recent article for Salon Magazine, Democrat social critic Camille Paglia suggests that Hillary Clinton’s inability to gain popularity with the male electorate may be the result of her particular brand of feminism: “As a career woman, Hillary is rooted in second-wave feminism, which began with Betty Friedan’s co-founding of the National Organization for

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  • Where are the ‘People of Color’?

    Where are the ‘People of Color’?0

    These days, it’s usually Donald Trump being attacked for being a “racist” and charged with stirring up “angry, white male” voters. But if you look at both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton events, they appear to be overwhelmingly stirring up whites, too. If you don’t believe it, just take a look at some of the

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