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AEI takes on challenges of AI
Brian Boyd, with help from Bill Drexel and Matt Elmore, discusses the American Enterprise Institute’s approach to artificial intelligence. What does it mean to be human? Are we defined by…
Human nature
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Space Colonists Should Emulate the Pilgrims
Robert Zimmerman writes for the Federalist about a fundamental future challenge. The colonization of the solar system and the creation of new societies on new worlds is likely going to…
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Sowell Explained Contrasting Approaches to the Day’s Major Questions
Hillsdale College’s Imprimis features Jason Riley’s observations about economist Thomas Sowell’s continuing importance in American policy debates. Sowell says his favorite of his own books is A Conflict of Visions,…
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Panning the Halloween ‘hellscapes’
Joy Pullmann of the Federalist is no fan of the more grotesque Halloween displays on neighborhood porches and lawns. [L]ots of people are rude, tasteless, and selfish. Of course, since…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Governments Are People and People Are Complicated
Government is more than just a concept. Government is people. For better and for worse, imperfect human beings fill government roles and make government decisions. That is why Federalist 51…
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How the case for banning guns is rooted in fantasy
Gun ownership rising dramatically while fatal firearm crime rates and nonfatal firearm crime victimization are falling just as dramatically. School shootings are actually rarer than they used to be. Artifacts…
Education
Education Quote of the Day
“Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first and main characteristic of mankind.” – Winston Churchill (1928)
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Prager: Liberals ignore painful facts
The latest installment in Dennis Prager‘s National Review Online columns contrasting the political Left and Right involves stubborn facts. Here’s a difference between Left and Right that is rarely noted…
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Prager begins series of columns contrasting left and right
Readers of National Review Online have a chance to peruse the first in a series of columns from Dennis Prager defining differences between liberals and conservatives. Difference No. 1: Is…
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Why Political Correctness Will Never Die
It’s in our very nature, says Robert Weissberg over at NRO’s Phi Beta Cons blog: Conservatives are forever complaining about campus PC, i.e., the forceful imposition an unreal political orthodoxy.…
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Visions vs. Reality
To put in perspective some of the praise we received for seeing our local fiscal train wreck coming, super-human powers of observation were not required. Just the proper understanding of…
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Good public policy needs to understand human nature
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says he won’t back down on his efforts to offer college scholarships to the children of illegal immigrants in Arkansas, even if it costs him…