Ask a Scholar: Does the Easy Use of Credit Bid Up the Price of Household Cost?
Apr 15, 2013 by Jason Fertig |
Jason Fertig responds to an inquiry regarding the easy use of credit in household economic calculations.
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Ask a Scholar - US v Cruikshank
Mar 28, 2013 by Robert Heidt |
Did a Reconstruction-era Supreme Court decision restrict legal remedies for African Americans?
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Ask a Scholar: Why Gridlock?
Mar 21, 2013 by Glenn Ricketts |
Is gridlock in our poitical system accidental or innate?
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Ask a Scholar: That vs. Who
Sep 18, 2012 by David J. Rothman |
Writing scholar provides insight on the usage of personal and impersonal pronouns.
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Ask a Scholar: Welfare, Single Mothers, and Marriage
Sep 07, 2012 by Lawrence M. Mead |
A politics scholar addresses the question, "Should marriage be a condition included in welfare reform? Would welfare benefits incentivize women to get married?"
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Ask a Scholar: What Government Debt Means
Sep 04, 2012 by Garett Jones |
Why do countries lend money to one another, and what does this mean?
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Ask a Scholar: Ocean Level
Jul 19, 2012 by Mark R. Abbott |
Are ocean levels rising? How do we know?
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Ask a Scholar: Touching Spheres
May 23, 2012 by Brody Dylan Johnson, Vera B. Koutsoyannis |
A bowler asks: what is the area of the space between two touching spheres? Mathematically, it is a point and has no area, but what about in the real world?
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Ask a Scholar: Declining the Second Term
May 07, 2012 by Jason Jividen |
Has there ever been a president who did not run for a second term by choice?
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Obama’s Higher-Ed Agenda
Feb 14, 2012 by Peter Wood |
Peter Wood surveys the Obama administration’s eight-part higher-education agenda.
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Ask a Scholar: Current Racial Score Gap Stats
Jan 25, 2012 by Stephan Thernstrom |
Is the data about racial achievement gaps in the book No Excuses still true today?
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Ask a Scholar: Noah’s Age
Jan 04, 2012 by Jon Levenson |
Do ancient calendars account for the biblical record of Noah's long life?
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Ask a Scholar: Low Interest Rates and the Liquidity Trap
Oct 26, 2011 by John Mathys |
Is our economy vulnerable to the Keynesian phenomenon known as the "liquidity trap"?
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Ask a Scholar: Did the New Deal End the Great Depression?
Sep 14, 2011 by Steven Horwitz |
Is sustained deficit spending successful in bringing a country out of a depression?
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Ask a Scholar: Electromagnetic Pulse Attack
Jul 29, 2011 by Robert Bishop |
A former nuclear weapons officer answers a reader's question: can we protect ourselves from an EMP attack?
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