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08, 2018
Are we Failing to Educate our Children?
When I discuss war, a growing number of students are unaware of which countries were involved in World War II. When I discuss abortion, many students are unaware that there is no abortion law in Canada
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08, 2018
Licensing Parents
Ryan Jenkins from 1000-Word Philosophy examines the potential worth in licensing parents. Most people think it’s obvious that we have
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07, 2018
Populism: The Long Con
Populism is an old trick. It’s been around since the earliest democracies. Plato, Aristotle and all the classical thinkers wrote about it and rightly condemned it, understanding that it would naturally end with a demagogue.
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07, 2018
Why Party Polarization Is (Probably) Here to Stay
Guillaume LeBlanc from New American Perspective analyzes the highly polarized political climate in the United States. Among the more striking
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07, 2018
Capsule Introduction to Capitalism and Socialism
Socialism arose historically as a response to capitalism. Its point of departure is the contention that capital is a social product—the fruit of countless hours/days/years of labor expended by hundreds of millions of people—and therefore that it should be under social control, i.e., under the control of the whole society
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07, 2018
Netflix’s Five Second Rule: High Heels & Sexual Display in the Workplace
Fashion is a projection of both a person and the culture in which that person operates. As such, one can gauge a culture’s shifting attitude toward sex through its fashion, and perhaps our culture is suffering from a kind of cognitive dissonance when it comes to its attitudes and its attire.
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06, 2018
“Make America Great Again”: Regina Jose Galindo’s Performance Art Illustrates the Struggles of Immigration
Art of Politics, Politics of Art, A Series By: Jeanette Joy Harris In this series, Jeanette Joy Harris looks at how artists
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06, 2018
On the Precipice
Like many others, I sometimes feel paralyzed by the enormity of the environmental challenge. How to break through this?
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06, 2018
Against Term Limits
Guillaume LeBlanc from New American Perspective takes issue with President Trump's suggestion of adding Congressional term limits.
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05, 2018
Bill Nelson Won’t Go Home
By: Caleb Mills They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, and, after forty years in politics, you’d