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  • How Dumbed Down Education is Creating a National Security Crisis

    How Dumbed Down Education is Creating a National Security Crisis0

    In Wind Sprints: Shorter Essays, Joseph Epstein, one of America’s great essayists, includes a piece “How I Learned to Love the Draft” in which he offered his reasons for the restoration of compulsory military service. After reading Epstein’s reasons for bringing back the draft—the exposure of young people to contemporaries from all backgrounds, a greater

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  • How Dumb Laws Get Innocent People in Trouble

    How Dumb Laws Get Innocent People in Trouble1

    There are a lot of weird laws these days. In fact, many of them are so dumb that it seems unlikely they would ever be enforced. But there are other weird laws that are enforced with a vengeance – even on those who are doing their best to be law-abiding citizens. An example of the

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  • How Drag Queen Story Hour Expanded Across America

    How Drag Queen Story Hour Expanded Across America0

    Drag Queen Story Hours started out as niche events on the West Coast, but these events – aimed at children as young as age 3 – have spread to libraries and schools across the United States, dividing local communities. These story hours are “just what they sound like,” Drag Queen Story Hour’s official website states: drag queens reading to children.

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  • How Dostoevsky predicted Trump’s America

    How Dostoevsky predicted Trump’s America0

    As a professor of Russian literature, I’ve come to realize that it’s never a good sign when real life resembles a Fyodor Dostoevsky novel. Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, with its riotous rhetoric and steady stream of scandals, calls to mind Dostoevsky’s most political novel, “Demons,” written in 1872. In it, the writer wanted to warn

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  • How Does Porn Affect Relationships?

    How Does Porn Affect Relationships?0

    The death of Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy Magazine, left many wondering about his legacy. Some argued that the sexual liberation that Hefner helped lead was a good thing. Others, who saw his magazine as the mainstreaming of pornography (chart), said the opposite was true. Either way, both sides seem to agree that Hefner

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  • How Does Impeachment Work?

    How Does Impeachment Work?0

    It finally happened. The House of Representatives is “launching a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump.” The grounds for impeachment? President Trump’s alleged talks with Ukrainian officials regarding an investigation into Joe Biden’s son’s business dealings in the Ukraine.  At present, Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson are the only presidents to be impeached in U.S. history. Although

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