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Student researches development of ‘child’s moral compass’
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Student researches development of ‘child’s moral compass’

It’s not every psychology research project that starts with decorating onesies for the participants, but it’s different when the research subjects are 6 to 24 months old. In preparation for her research project on infant social judgments, senior Mikaela Overton met with her adviser, chairwoman of psychology Kari McArthur, to iron “Baby Scientist” onto the...

Revolution, riots, rights:  Students throwback to the ’60s CCA
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Revolution, riots, rights: Students throwback to the ’60s CCA

War, revolution, riots, assassins, rights, men on the moon – this was the 1960s. This was the era in which Vietnam rattled with gunfire and burned with napalm as American soldiers battled the communist Viet Kong, while on the shores of the U.S., young men publicly incinerated their draft cards. Martin Luther King Jr. declared...

Global institutions virtue signal in vain while ignoring real issues
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Global institutions virtue signal in vain while ignoring real issues

The typical globalist passionately declares that the age of the modern nation-state is over and the age of a global political organization has already begun; the holdouts are nostalgic boomers clinging to the bygone era of national glory. Look at the state of the world today, they say. The most pressing issues — a transnational...

Pastor and professor dies at age 87
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Pastor and professor dies at age 87

When former Hillsdale professor Charles “Chuck” Johnson poured cat food into the bowls lined up on his front porch, he always waved to his neighbors as they strolled by his E. Fayette Street home on warm evenings. After living a life full of love for felines and humans alike, he died at 87 years old...

MacIntyre’s stepchild heralds doom of the West
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MacIntyre’s stepchild heralds doom of the West

    O, you who turn the ship of state and look to windward, consider liberalism, which has failed. In his new manifesto, “Why Liberalism Failed,” the Notre Dame political philosopher argues that the dominating political project of the past 300 years has always been doomed to fail, that a political and social order designed...