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  • Back in My Day, Young’un…

    Back in My Day, Young’un…0

    • November 22, 2017

    As the saying goes, kids these days never had it so good. Monty Python made a great sketch based on this idea: old men complaining about the young people of today and competing as to who had the most uncomfortable upbringing. To paraphrase, “back in my day I had to walk to school and back,

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  • Ayn Rand and Ludwig von Mises Once Had Dinner Together, and It Can Teach Us a Lot About Intellectual

    Ayn Rand and Ludwig von Mises Once Had Dinner Together, and It Can Teach Us a Lot About Intellectual0

    At the International Society for Individual Liberty’s Conference, Milton Friedman once gave a speech titled “Say ‘No’ to Intolerance” (you can find the transcription here) where he criticized the sectarianism of a part of the libertarian movement. To illustrate his point, he told an anecdote, which can be found in Barbara Branden’s biography of Ayn

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  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Islamists Won’t Thank Liberals for Being Nice or PC

    Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Islamists Won’t Thank Liberals for Being Nice or PC0

    On “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Ayaan Hirsi Ali recently blasted what she called the “apologetic attitude” many liberals seem to have toward Islamism and Islamic terrorism. Hirsi Ali, who was raised Muslim in Somalia but has renounced her former religion, said the Islamist playbook is simple: indoctrination, intimidation, and force. She said Western efforts to appease

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  • Axios Butchers the History of Thanksgiving

    Axios Butchers the History of Thanksgiving2

    On the day before Thanksgiving, Axios published an article titled “Thanksgiving’s Troubled History” by Russell Contreras, the “Justice and Race reporter at Axios.” Citing “a new generation of historians,” Contreras declares that “Thanksgiving in the United States is based on a mythical feast between the Wampanoag people and Mayflower Pilgrims” and that “the holiday’s real

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  • Award-Winning Teacher: 8 Problems Plaguing Children

    Award-Winning Teacher: 8 Problems Plaguing Children2

    Shortly after being named New York teacher of the year in the early 1990s, John Taylor Gatto wrote a public letter of resignation, explaining that he could no longer be a part of a system which hurt children and families. Following his resignation, Gatto released a book of essays called Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden

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  • Avoiding Stupidity in the Age of Pregnant and Period-Producing Men

    Avoiding Stupidity in the Age of Pregnant and Period-Producing Men0

    There are a lot of unbelievable things happening in our world today. So many, that it’s easy to ignore them as they whip by us like the Wicked Witch of the West’s hoard of flying monkeys. But some things are just too remarkable to ignore. The ACLU’s tweet for International Men’s Day is one of

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