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  • Communist Clubs Are Sprouting Up in U.S. High Schools Again

    Communist Clubs Are Sprouting Up in U.S. High Schools Again0

    Students at Edina High School in Minnesota say they received an unusual invitation over the loudspeakers on a cold January morning earlier this year. The announcement was not related to a school play, a pledge drive, or a bake sale. Rather, it was an invitation to join the school’s newly-created student-led group: the Young Marxists

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  • Communism Became the Disease It Tried to Cure

    Communism Became the Disease It Tried to Cure0

    From Radical Revolutionaries to Privileged Bureaucrats The great German sociologist, Max Weber (1864-1920) offered an understanding of the evolution of socialist regimes in the twentieth century from revolutionary radicalism to a stagnant system of power, privilege and plunder, manned by self-interested Soviet socialist office holders. Max Weber, in his posthumously published monumental treatise, Economy and

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  • Communism and Nazism Are Now Legally Synonymous in Ukraine

    Communism and Nazism Are Now Legally Synonymous in Ukraine0

    Their names still haunt us. Chelmno. Belzec, Sobibor. Treblinka. Auschwitz. Dachau. Majdanek. They stir images of the horrors of Nazi killing centers, where millions of Jews, Poles, Soviet POWs, and gypsies were systematically killed in one of the great horrors of the twentieth century.  For many of us, this imagery is associated exclusively with Hitler

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  • Common Sense on Communist China

    Common Sense on Communist China0

    President Trump repeatedly has called on companies to move their factories out of Communist China. He imposed tariffs after determining the Chinese government was illegally subsidizing the production of those goods. Companies responded by asking the president to lift the tariffs, parroting the Chinese Communist party line. Then the coronavirus came along and exposed the

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  • Common Sense May be Returning to Marriages With Weekday Weddings

    Common Sense May be Returning to Marriages With Weekday Weddings0

    Weddings are a joyous occasion, and I’ve heard of at least three in my social circles in the upcoming months. But two of these weddings are diverting from the norm of a weekend celebratory affair, choosing instead to hold their nuptials on a weekday. “A weekday?!” one might well say. “How inconsiderate! I can’t take

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  • Common Sense Is Getting Lost in the Immigration Debate

    Common Sense Is Getting Lost in the Immigration Debate0

    One of the early-medieval words and concepts I’ve thought about bringing back is the ‘thede’. In old England, the ‘thede’ referred to the tribe. It was a familial, rather than an abstract, descriptor of the people or the nation. Even though it had a certain standing in common law, the thede is not to be

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