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  • Why Donald Trump Should Heed Plato on Foreign Policy

    Why Donald Trump Should Heed Plato on Foreign Policy0

    Looking ahead to what will be the most defining feature of the Trump administration, Pat Buchanan has noted that it is “Time for a Trump Doctrine.” With Hillary Clinton’s defeat, the nation has the opportunity to resolve the tension between the Obama Doctrine (that the U.S. is not responsible for the management of the Middle

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  • Why Don’t Women Dress Traditionally?

    Why Don’t Women Dress Traditionally?14

    I wrote an article this past year detailing my experience of wearing exclusively dresses and skirts, due to symptoms of my third pregnancy. I am now on the other side of this experience—I delivered my third son and am healing very well postpartum. To my own surprise, I find I have not gone back to

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  • Why Don’t We Call It Rape or Child Molestation When a Woman is the Perp?

    Why Don’t We Call It Rape or Child Molestation When a Woman is the Perp?1

    On the day I wrote this story, the headline of the number one story on the Washington Post website was this: “Texas teacher who had sex almost daily with 13-year-old student gets 10 years in prison.” Despite the fact that the offense was technically rape, which is why the teacher, Alexandria Vera, is now spending a decade

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  • Why Don’t More People Teach Manners?

    Why Don’t More People Teach Manners?0

    As I was walking out the door of a CVS last week, a woman walked right into a man standing in place and kept going without a word. The man was visibly perturbed, and finally after a few seconds asked with exasperation, “Could you please just say ‘I’m sorry?’” He sounded desperate, as if in

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  • Why Don’t Conservatives Just Take Their Kids Out of Public Schools?

    Why Don’t Conservatives Just Take Their Kids Out of Public Schools?1

    Conservatives have many ideological complaints about the current public education system: the way it indoctrinates their children, the way it teaches them history, the way it institutionalizes them. Their most recent issue (which, arguably, many liberal parents have a problem with, too) is over the federal government’s mandate that a transgender boy at a Chicago-area

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  • Why Don’t We Have a Capital Day?

    Why Don’t We Have a Capital Day?0

    Labor Day, according to the US Department of Labor is “dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers” and as a “national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.” Holidays should be deployed to remind the populace of that which normally escapes public notice.

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