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  • Ortega Y Gassset: Technology Is the Essence of Man

    Ortega Y Gassset: Technology Is the Essence of Man0

    We live in an age of rapid technological change. 20 years ago, someone would have laughed at you if you said you had a mini computer in your pocket. Today, Americans spend an average of 11 hours on their tech per day. Experts predict around 40% of the jobs done by humans will soon be the

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  • Our Politics Now: Up vs. Down, Not Left vs. Right

    Our Politics Now: Up vs. Down, Not Left vs. Right0

    If you were to view the evolution of politics in the West in traditional left versus right terms, you undoubtedly would see the political preferences of most people have shifted leftward. Just look at how most Americans view federal spending: total government spending (federal, state, and local) accounts for 37.7 percent of the country’s overall

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  • Human Freedom Index 20180

    “ Cato Institute’s scholars Tanja Porčnik and Ian Vásquez have recently released the 2018 Human Freedom Index (HFI), a report where the authors look at freedom in the world using data from 2016. The HFI ranks countries from most to least free after analyzing 79 indicators related to personal and economic freedom. Here are five graphs

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  • Six Ways to Teach and Practice Gratitude

    Six Ways to Teach and Practice Gratitude1

    Kindness means thinking of others and acting in ways that contribute to their happiness. Complaining certainly doesn’t do that.  If you’ve been trying to make kindness part of your family culture and there’s still a lot of complaining, it’s time to take further steps to teach and practice gratitude.  Here are 6: 1. Discuss as a family

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  • What a Woman

    What a Woman0

    Fierce. Honest. Libertarian. Author and professor Camille Paglia speaks her own mind, uses logic rather than histrionics to make her arguments, and is unafraid of blowback from her critics. Though a lifelong Democrat and a supporter of Bernie Sanders, she refused to vote for Hilary Clinton, regarding her as a “liar.” She has called into

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  • 15 Things You Should Know about the 2018 Partial Government Shutdown

    15 Things You Should Know about the 2018 Partial Government Shutdown0

    1. What just happened? On Friday, the federal government entered a partial shutdown after the Senate failed to pass a spending bill that includes border wall funding. President Trump refuses to sign any additional funding that does not include $5.1 billion in additional money to pay for an extension of the border wall, allowing him

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