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  • Death and Taxes: The Motivation Behind Selective Reopening

    Death and Taxes: The Motivation Behind Selective Reopening0

    America is slowly beginning to reopen, with different states running the course at varying speeds. While the Wisconsin Supreme Court recently repealed state-wide regulations instantaneously, most states do not have the benefit of such decisive action, and are instead suffering through phases arbitrarily decided by state and local governments or executive fiat. In most of America, liquor

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  • Dear Senator Warren: Don’t Penalize Moms Who Choose to Stay Home with Their Kids

    Dear Senator Warren: Don’t Penalize Moms Who Choose to Stay Home with Their Kids0

    Dear Senator Warren, Congratulations! You’ve been making great progress in your presidential race. As a working mom of two little girls, aged two and three, I’m happy to see a fellow mom in the spotlight, fighting to help middle-class families. But, I have to admit, I’m a little bit confused. Let me explain. I recently

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  • Dear Professor Tirrell: Speech isn’t Toxic, People Are

    Dear Professor Tirrell: Speech isn’t Toxic, People Are0

    In Jean-Paul Sartre’s play “No Exit,” the character Joseph Garcin concludes that torture and other forms of physical punishment pale in comparison to the torment of poor company. So he pronounces that “Hell is other people.” The same cynical view overcomes me when intelligent people theorize about the harm caused by offensive speech. Lynne Tirrell,

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  • Dear Media: Stop Putting Scare Quotes Around ‘Free Speech’

    Dear Media: Stop Putting Scare Quotes Around ‘Free Speech’0

    Irony punctuation is an age-old (and effective) literary device writers use as a sort of wink to readers. Techniques vary, but a particularly popular device is the use of “scare quotes,” which indicate to readers the word or phrase in the quotes should be viewed with skepticism. (A less subtle way of conveying this would

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  • Dear Educators: “Privilege” Is Theory, Not Fact

    Dear Educators: “Privilege” Is Theory, Not Fact0

    • April 9, 2015

    The idea of “privilege” has been a growing fad on college campuses over the past decade. While discussions of “white privilege,” “male privilege,” “heterosexual privilege,” and “able-bodied privilege” were once relegated to a few liberal arts classrooms, these discussions have seeped into the mainstream of campus life. Just this week, Campus Reform reported on a “Christian Privilege”

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  • Dear Donald: First, Let’s Make America Good Again

    Dear Donald: First, Let’s Make America Good Again0

    Donald Trump is our next president. What does this mean for Christian conservatives? On the plus side:  * America repudiated the Establishment of both political parties. * America repudiated the Mainstream Media. * America repudiated the Chattering Classes of both parties. Above all, Americans acted like Americans. We refused to let ourselves be manipulated by

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