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  • George Washington University Removing SAT/ACT Requirement

    George Washington University Removing SAT/ACT Requirement0

    • July 28, 2015

    In high school, you were a voracious reader, had argumentation and writing skills superior to most of your classmates, and received good grades. But your standardized test scores were mediocre at best, and they hurt your college applications. For people like you, there may be more hope on the future college admissions front. According to

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  • George Washington Bought an INSANE Amount of Alcohol to Launch his Political Career

    George Washington Bought an INSANE Amount of Alcohol to Launch his Political Career0

    Campaign finance is a touchy subject in the United States today. The Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision unleashed a flood of money into politics. The court ruled that federal restrictions on donations from unions and corporations to individual candidates violated the Constitution’s right to free speech. A group opposed to the Citizens United decision

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  • George Orwell’s Review of Mein Kampf

    George Orwell’s Review of Mein Kampf0

    The political upheavals of 2016 have left western elites dumbfounded. After all we’ve done for them, they ask, how could people reject progress? Many people in the developed world are turning toward authoritarianism, closed markets and a renewed nationalism. Can you blame the elites for being shocked? Especially when these same people were so cloistered

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  • George Orwell: What is Fascism?

    George Orwell: What is Fascism?0

    Accusations of fascism are tossed around like candy at a Fourth of July parade. It’s been this way for a long time. Anything that hints of some person or some group not getting to do whatever they want or with which there is violent disagreement is often labeled fascist. Today is no different. George Orwell

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  • George Orwell Knew We’d Buy the Screens That Are Used Against Us

    George Orwell Knew We’d Buy the Screens That Are Used Against Us0

    Sales of George Orwell’s utopian novel 1984 (1949) have spiked twice recently, both times in response to political events. In early 2017, the idea of ‘alternative facts’ called to mind Winston Smith, the book’s protagonist and, as a clerk in the Ministry of Truth, a professional alternator of facts. And in 2013, the US National

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  • George Floyd Reveals the Bankruptcy of the Elites

    George Floyd Reveals the Bankruptcy of the Elites0

    The protests, looting, and fires which have rocked the city of Minneapolis after the tragic death of George Floyd are yet another illustration of the comprehensive failure of our leading institutions, which seem incompetent and unprepared to handle society’s widespread anger and alienation. The concurrent rise of nationalism, socialism, and populism during the twentieth-first century increasingly resembles a tragic recapitulation of the nineteenth. Institutions are

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