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  • Why Americans Fear Trial by Jury

    Why Americans Fear Trial by Jury0

    Everyone on both left and right these days is demanding rights – but not the earliest and most important one, the historic right to trial by a jury of one’s peers. Today, over 90 percent of American defendants waive that right in favor of a prosecutor’s proposed plea bargain, because, as Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz notes

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  • Why Americans Can No Longer Think For Themselves

    Why Americans Can No Longer Think For Themselves0

    American lingo continually seems to be filled with new words and catch phrases. One of the more recent ones is “fake news.” Fake news became a rising buzzword following the 2016 presidential election. According to the Journal of Economic Perspectives, blame for fake news is largely placed at the feet of social media, which enables

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  • Why Americans Are Such Suckers for Propaganda

    Why Americans Are Such Suckers for Propaganda0

    To many Americans, high school seems like a normal part of life. To not attend is unheard of; to fail to graduate is a death sentence for one’s future. But what we often forget is that the modern high school is a relatively new concept. As Paul Beston notes in a recent article for City

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  • Why Americans Are So Enamored With Election Polls

    Why Americans Are So Enamored With Election Polls0

    The Republican pollster Frank Luntz warned on Twitter and elsewhere the other day that if preelection polls in this year’s presidential race are embarrassingly wrong again, “then the polling industry is done.” It was quite the forecast. While it is possible the polls will misfire, it’s exceedingly unlikely that such failure would cause the opinion

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  • Why American Media Fawn Over Communist Murderers

    Why American Media Fawn Over Communist Murderers0

    The CNN headline read, “Kim Jong Un’s sister is stealing the show at the Winter Olympics.”  Then the article began with this gushing report:  “If ‘diplomatic dance’ were an event at the Winter Olympics, Kim Jong Un’s younger sister would be favored to win gold.” A Washington Post reporter, Philip Bump, tweeted “You go, girl”

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  • Why America’s Self-Help Industry Is Booming

    Why America’s Self-Help Industry Is Booming0

    Many people may not know that in 2017 Patriots quarterback Tom Brady rolled out a cookbook. For just $200, readers could get a “living document” dishing all the secrets of the star quarterback’s heavily (and strangely) regimented diet. The “TB12-alligned nutrition plan” had a total of 89 recipes. The notion that people would pay $200

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