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  • What’s Wrong with the Right, the Left, AND the Center

    What’s Wrong with the Right, the Left, AND the Center0

    I consider myself politically homeless, and have for a while now.   I started out as a ‘campus leftist’ or ‘social justice warrior’, knee-deep in the works of Marx and Marcuse, Horkheimer and Habermas.   But life as an expat in China changed my outlook somewhat. Witnessing the marriage between a communist state and its

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  • John Ruskin—8 Profound and Relevant Thoughts on Education

    John Ruskin—8 Profound and Relevant Thoughts on Education3

    John Ruskin (1819-1900), the Victorian English artist and critic, has left behind him not only a school of artwork but also a considerable body of written material – some of it quite profound. In an age where “advanced” and “progressive” ideas were becoming more and more common, Ruskin stood as an advocate not only for

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  • Is Russia Part of Western Civilization?

    Is Russia Part of Western Civilization?0

    A recent tweet by conservative columnist and vlogger Dennis Prager about the news media posing a greater threat to “Western civilization” than Russia has prompted a fierce backlash on online media. It has also indirectly given voice to an age-old question about Russia: is she Western, or not? Are Russia and America bound by the

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  • Why Conservatives Should Care More about Cities

    Why Conservatives Should Care More about Cities0

    It’s a time-honoured tradition in America, since the days of Jefferson and even before, to decry the evils of city life. One sees a great deal of this tradition in modern conservative discourse. Small-town America is the ‘real America’, the unpretentious, authentic, hardworking America with healthy values, and the big cities are full of crime

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