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With no War on Drugs there would be, within one generation, no "black problem" in the United States, says The New Republic, echoing England's increasingly liberal drugs policies.
From the moment they entered the workforce in the 1960s, baby-boomers began to shape America’s economy and politics. They will do the same as they leave.
"The world doesn't matter to us the way it used to," say two philosophers who have written a book about the loss of traditional meaning in contemporary secular culture.
A lack of ambition plagues virtually every Western country. The ability to act has become shackled by a profound pessimism that does not exist in developing countries.
The only thing worse than being misperceived by a machine is being expertly perceived by one, says Walter Kirn about software that recommends the author books and movies.
Turning off mobile phones and avoiding the Internet can leave people suffering from symptoms similar to those seen in drug addicts trying to go cold turkey, researchers have found.
Nicolas Kristof recently wrote a column in the New York Times urging Americans to teach their children Spanish before Chinese. Chinese has become quite the coveted prize for New Yorkers: “Chinese […]
In a technology-based culture, you learn from infancy that truth is what can be counted and measured. That makes it easy to divide any conversation into what you learned (important!) […]
Frank Furedi takes to task Tariq Ramadan, "who wants to bury the Enlightenment virtue of toleration and replace it with recognition." Can we seek meaning without a capacity to judge?
The European subspecies is slowly dying out, according to some. The blame should be laid firmly on the shoulders of emancipated women.
Erika Morphy tells retailers how now to be evil when selling and suggests other resolutions for navigating a tricky economy and cautious consumers.
What would Michel de Montaigne, the French author commonly credited with inventing the essay, think of the custom of making new year resolutions?
The American people rescued these six banks. They've all violated the law, and they're all suspected of even more possible illegalities.
Depression is a major public health problem. Policymakers, treatment providers, and patients need unbiased research and responsible dissemination of information by the press.
The cosmetics industry has dragged its feet when it comes to developing alternatives to animal testing. Here they are again trying to stall new animal welfare laws.
There is a broader need for more individual scientists to communicate with the public. Currently, that kind of activity is not particularly valued in some fields of research.
We are not hapless victims of circumstances, we are deeply complicit in creating them. We are not stuck with global warming. We are global warming.
Misal embodies the type of person who will truly transform India: not an engineer or a financier, but an average person who refuses to be satisfied with the status he was born to.
When you talk about Classical music, you often begin with the three Killer B’s: Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. If you talk about American photography, you need to begin with the […]
If the following combination of names has meaning to you, the answer is yes: Desean, Lesean, Jeremy, Michael, Brent. Football and philosophy don’t often share the same Op-Ed column, but […]