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Shane Ralston

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  • David Cay Johnston: Journalism a Bastion for ‘Trust Fund Kids’

    David Cay Johnston: Journalism a Bastion for ‘Trust Fund Kids’0

    In a recent Salon.com interview, investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston declared that the real problem with today’s journalism is not ideological bias or fake news. Instead, it’s the myopia journalists suffer from as a result of attending elite prep schools, growing up with silver spoons in their mouths and living off

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  • Writer: We Have to Ditch Free Speech Because Trump Won

    Writer: We Have to Ditch Free Speech Because Trump Won0

    In a recent opinion piece in Slate, titled “The Kids are Right: There’s Nothing Outrageous about Stamping out Bigoted Speech,” Osita Nwanevu argues that in the age of Trump student activists should be permitted to dictate who speaks on college campuses. Shutting down speakers like Charles Murray at Middlebury College and Milo Yiannopoulos at UC

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  • Why We Should Fear the Deep State

    Why We Should Fear the Deep State0

    The notion of the “deep state” or a “state within a state” is creepy, to say the least. It indicates the existence of a shadowy group of unelected bureaucrats deeply embedded in the military-intelligence establishment secretly manipulating government policy. Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute defines the ‘deep state’ as “nothing more than agencies and

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  • The College Textbook Racket

    The College Textbook Racket0

    The business of selling college textbooks is a racket. As Ernie Smith of Atlas Obscura notes, it has a long history. Every academic year a new edition of practically every college textbook is released by the publisher. The prices of college textbooks are horrendously high, sometimes in excess of $200. Since textbooks are required reading

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