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  • Does Class Size Make a Difference on the Quality of Our Kids’ Education?

    Does Class Size Make a Difference on the Quality of Our Kids’ Education?0

    Chicago’s teachers went on strike in October, suspending instruction for the city’s public school students for 11 days. Educators in the nation’s third-largest school district were seeking higher pay and improved benefits. But they also wanted to reduce the number of classrooms with large numbers of students. The deal the union representing Chicago’s teachers struck

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  • Does Character Matter Anymore in Politics?

    Does Character Matter Anymore in Politics?0

    The 2016 presidential election seems headed toward a showdown between the two least-liked presidential candidates since American voters have been polled on the question—and with good reason. One is a vindictive, politically ruthless, unrepentant liar; the other is an egomaniacal, boorish, bullying braggart. Neither one even bothers to pay lip service to the values of

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  • Does Britain Have the World’s Best Health System?

    Does Britain Have the World’s Best Health System?0

    “The National Health Service is the closest thing the English have to a religion,” Margaret Thatcher’s Chancellor Nigel Lawson famously once observed. However, given the swivel-eyed fanaticism with which its supporters will defend it, even from the overwhelming evidence of its shortcomings, at this point it might be more accurate to describe the NHS as

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  • Does an Unhealthy Individualism Lead to Collectivism?

    Does an Unhealthy Individualism Lead to Collectivism?0

    America was destined to become a country that vacillates between individualism and collectivism. At least, that’s the argument of University of Notre Dame political science professor Patrick Deneen in his persuasive essay “Unsustainable Liberalism.”  As Deneen explains, America was founded upon the philosophy of liberalism (not to be confused with the progressive form of liberalism

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  • Does America Work Without Natural Law?

    Does America Work Without Natural Law?0

    • March 29, 2016

    That’s not as strange a question as one might think. The founders of the United States began their Declaration of Independence thus: “When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the

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  • Does America Still Believe in its Own Ideas?

    Does America Still Believe in its Own Ideas?0

    The other day, my mother handed me a couple of books she had found while sorting through my late grandfather’s belongings. One was entitled Military Science and Tactics: Infantry Basic Course, which I presume was left over from his days in basic training during World War II. While most of the book revolved around weapon

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