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  • Why Elites Hate Border Walls

    Why Elites Hate Border Walls0

    Remember the old acronym WWJD? It stood for “What Would Jesus Do?” and was adapted to any number of public figures, one of whom was the late Senator Paul Wellstone (WWWD). I’d like to propose a new acronym in the same vein: WWCW. Yes, WWCW does translate to “What Would Chesterton Write.” Given that, W(hat)

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  • Why Education is the ‘Fraud of the Age’

    Why Education is the ‘Fraud of the Age’1

    There’s always something thrilling about the start of a new school year or semester. New clothes to wear. Fresh books to explore. New teachers to meet. It’s all become a part of what we call back-to-school and the education experience. Of course, many of us will quickly agree that the new books and clothes aren’t

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  • Why Education Can Exist—and Prosper—Without Government Schools

    Why Education Can Exist—and Prosper—Without Government Schools2

    In his famous essay The Law, Frédéric Bastiat explains how many who object to the free market and liberty create a false dichotomy between having the government provide some service and the service’s abolition altogether: Socialism, like the old policy from which it emanates, confounds Government and society. And so, every time we object to a

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  • Why Economic Education Is Essential for Young Americans

    Why Economic Education Is Essential for Young Americans0

    In order to fulfill the requirements of my undergraduate program, I had to complete six credits in economics. Sitting in my “intro to microeconomics” class, I slowly began dying inside after being faced with slide after slide of supply and demand curves and textbook problem sets that seemed to always involve the avocado market for

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  • Why Eating Healthy is so Damn Hard (and Arguably Pointless)

    Why Eating Healthy is so Damn Hard (and Arguably Pointless)0

    About 15 years ago, when I was in graduate school, a roommate of mine watched in horror as I salted a slice of pizza. He was a medical student, and many intelligent educators and textbooks had instructed him on the dangers of table salt. “Do you know what that salt is doing to your body?”

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  • Why Eastern European Conservatism Is Different

    Why Eastern European Conservatism Is Different10

    Eastern Europe is by far the most conservative region of the Western world. The Russian Federation has arguably the least liberal system of government in all of Europe, and the nations of the Visegrád Group—Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and Hungary—form a right-wing bloc within the European Union that resists the progressive agenda coming from Brussels. From

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