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20151116

Terrorism Works

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Hamilton Nolan Terrorism persists because terrorism works. Terrorism works because we let it. It takes a great deal of violence to wipe out...
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20151016

Where Did Colleges Go Wrong?

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From 'puppy days' to trigger warnings, higher ed needs a course correction. A few weeks ago, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt a...
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20151004

In China, Your Credit Score Is Now Affected By Your Political Opinions – And Your Friends’ Political Opinions

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China just introduced a universal credit score, where everybody is measured as a number between 350 and 950. But this credit score isn’t j...
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20150921

The elite don’t hand out resources like the rest of us

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Those from premier schools take a very utilitarian approach. by Roheeni Saxena Economic inequality in the US has drawn attention to the ...
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20150910

Zero Tolerance

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Age-specific alcohol porohibition of persons under the age of 21 enjoys wide public support in the U. S., as does the policy ...
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20150831

When You’re Calling Culture Content, You’re Reinforcing The Idea Of A Container

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The metaphors we use determine how we see the world. When we're calling all stories, songs, news, gossip, and bedtime stories the blan...
20150806

A post about this blog

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Over the years I've been posting less and less here. The fact that the majority of this blog is about government malfeasance was getting...
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20150801

Dead enough

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by Walter Glannon To honour donors, we should harvest organs that have the best chance of helping others – before, not after, death A ...
20150729

Not a Very P.C. Thing to Say: How the language police are perverting liberalism.

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Around 2 a.m. on December 12, four students approached the apartment of Omar Mahmood, a Muslim student at the University of Michigan, who h...
20150721

Entrepreneurs don’t have a special gene for risk—they come from families with money

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by Aimee Groth We’re in an era of the cult of the entrepreneur . We analyze the Tory Burches and Evan Spiegels of the world looking for a ...
20150716

Judge Kozinski: There's Very Little Justice In Our So-Called 'Justice System'

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Judge Alex Kozinski has long been one of the few judges willing to speak up against our nation's thoroughly corrupted justice system. I...
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