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  • Did Trump Throw the First Pitch in a Trade War with China?

    Did Trump Throw the First Pitch in a Trade War with China?0

    Despite receiving billions of dollars in subsidies, the U.S. solar panel manufacturing industry is not competitive with Chinese imports. There is a robust solar industry in the United States; it’s just not in the manufacture of panels. As the Wall Street Journal explains: “The U.S. solar industry has discovered that its comparative advantage lies not

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  • Did Truman Capote Write ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’?

    Did Truman Capote Write ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’?3

    Over cocktails a few weeks ago, I was discussing literature with friends. Conversation inevitably swung to which book had the strongest claim as “the Great American Novel.” Huck Finn immediately sprang to my mind, which I quickly changed. It’s a tie, I said. Gone with the Wind and To Kill a Mockingbird. A no-brainer. Neither

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  • Did the Obama Administration Spy on Michael Flynn?

    Did the Obama Administration Spy on Michael Flynn?0

    In his controversial tweet on Sunday, President Trump indicated that he would direct the Justice Department to investigate “whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes—and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!” Is the president hinting that he thinks Michael Flynn,

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  • Did the GOP Just Dodge a Bullet?

    Did the GOP Just Dodge a Bullet?0

    When he took the floor of the Senate to reject the Democrats’ Jan. 6 Commission, Mitch McConnell may have salvaged his party’s chances to recapture the House in 2022. For that commission, being spun as a “bipartisan” effort to learn what “really happened” in the Capitol that fateful day, is a Democratic scheme to have

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  • Did the Catholic Church Invent Propaganda?

    Did the Catholic Church Invent Propaganda?0

    “The Church created propaganda.” This is the charge leveled by French philosopher and sociologist Jacques Ellul in his 1964 book The Technological Society, which now has the infamous distinction of being Unabomber Ted Kaczynski’s favorite book. Is the charge true? Yes and no. As you might expect, propaganda has been used in one form or another

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  • Did the Ancient Greeks Believe in Freedom?

    Did the Ancient Greeks Believe in Freedom?0

    The ancient Greeks left a wealth of knowledge through their surviving writings on a wide variety of themes, including science, logic, philosophy, literature, and the arts. In addition, the city-state of Athens is considered the birthplace of intellectual freedom and democracy – lasting legacies that helped to mold the ideas that have influenced the development

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