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May 8, 2012

For Students: Challenge of Liberty Summer Seminars

Ashley Thorne

This summer the Independent Institute is offering San Francisco Bay-area seminars for high school and college students where they can learn from top scholars about individual liberty, personal......

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May 8, 2012

Two Kinds of Critical Thinking

AILACT

A reply by the board of a scholarly organization to Peter Wood’s Comments on “Critical Thinking.”

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May 7, 2012

Ask a Scholar: Declining the Second Term

Has there ever been a president who did not run for a second term by choice?

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May 4, 2012

"Teaching as a Subversive Activity": The Theory of Political Indoctrination

Zombie

Teachers have a "moral imperative" to shape students' beliefs and make them "agents for change," declared a lanugage professor at a recent Berkeley lecture.

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May 4, 2012

Ruminations at the end of the semester

Daniel Asia

I have recently returned from a trip abroad.  In receiving my peanuts, pretzels and drink during the flight, I also received two napkins.

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