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  • How San Fransisco’s Housing Policy Makes it Harder for the Homeless

    How San Fransisco’s Housing Policy Makes it Harder for the Homeless0

    I recently highlighted California’s counterproductive restrictions on private efforts to feed the homeless. But the state’s policies aren’t just inhibiting the bottom-up activities of non-profits and charities. They’re also restricting potential solutions via entrepreneurial investment. Alas, many municipalities have severely restricted new residential development, causing the housing supply to diminish and the cost of living to soar. In a

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  • How Rome Described Their Barbarians

    How Rome Described Their Barbarians1

    The term “barbarian” gets thrown around a lot, including by our Intellectual Takeout authors in their blogs. In general, “barbarian” is the generic term used by Westerners for someone who do not conform to the dominant culture’s standards of civilization and, in some cases, seeks to actively undermine them. Many scholars have argued that we

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  • How Romanticism Encouraged the Decline of Marriage

    How Romanticism Encouraged the Decline of Marriage0

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  • How Republicans Managed to Turn Alabama Blue

    How Republicans Managed to Turn Alabama Blue0

    If there was one Republican in Alabama the Democratic Doug Jones could beat, Roy Moore was that Republican. And in a Tuesday night nail-biter, Jones did just that, edging Moore by a mere 1.5 percentage points in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate since 1992. So while the Democrats are

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  • How Religion in America Differed From Religion in Europe

    How Religion in America Differed From Religion in Europe0

    I recently came across a bit of news noting that the Trump administration is considering overturning the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits tax-exempt charitable groups from endorsing political candidates and engaging in other forms of political activism. My own feelings on this issue are mostly ambivalent (for now) because I have not yet given the matter

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  • How Relativism Contradicts Itself

    How Relativism Contradicts Itself1

    It’s often pointed out that relativism is becoming more prevalent in the West. In 2005, Pope Benedict XVI claimed that the West was building “a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one’s own ego and desires.” But though an attitude of relativism may be

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