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  • How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Live

    How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Live0

    Timothy Garton Ash, Oxford professor of Professor of European Studies, recently published a magisterial book, Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World. We hear many diatribes for free speech (and some against); Ash supplies background knowledge about how the internet changes the speech issues we face and what we can do to protect free speech in

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  • How the Internet Fuels America’s Underground Sex Trade

    How the Internet Fuels America’s Underground Sex Trade0

    America has always had an underground sex trade, and for decades most pimps followed the same general script: they’d recruit sex workers on the street, in bars and in strip clubs. But over the past 20 years, the internet has become the major marketplace for the sex trade, with online advertisements and recruitment through social

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  • How the Heir of the White Nationalist Movement Learned to Let Go of Hatred

    How the Heir of the White Nationalist Movement Learned to Let Go of Hatred0

    In his book Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist, Eli Saslow explores Derek Roland Black’s journey from darkness to light. Black was the “rightful heir to America’s white nationalist movement—the son of Don Black, who founded the internet’s largest hate site, Stormfront.org [and who led the KKK for a decade]; and

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  • How the Hallmark Channel Saved Christmas

    How the Hallmark Channel Saved Christmas0

    While conservative media have spent the last few holiday seasons bemoaning the “War on Christmas,” one television network is actually doing something about it. Using the cultural weapons of heartwarming settings, wholesome plotlines, and endearing characters, the Hallmark Channel has spent the last decade vanquishing the enemies of Christmas, who now lie prostrate on the

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  • How the Great Books Are Revolutionizing College Admissions Tests

    How the Great Books Are Revolutionizing College Admissions Tests0

    You may remember taking the SAT or the ACT. Hours and hours of memorizing techniques and tricks, all to get that perfect score to unlock your college dreams. These tests have monopolized the college entrance process, and in recent years—in the case of the SAT in particular—have been tied to the controversial Common Core standards.

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  • How the Government Ruined US Healthcare — and What Can Be Done

    How the Government Ruined US Healthcare — and What Can Be Done0

    Government’s meddling in the healthcare business has been disastrous from the get-go. Since 1910, when Republican William Taft gave in to the American Medical Association’s lobbying efforts, most administrations have passed new healthcare regulations. With each new law or set of new regulations, restrictions on the healthcare market went further, until at some point in

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