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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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  • Why America’s Founders Didn’t Want a Democracy

    Why America’s Founders Didn’t Want a Democracy0

    When I took history and government in school, many critical issues were misrepresented, given short shrift, or even ignored entirely. And those lacunae undermined my ability to adequately understand many things. Randall Holcombe’s new book, Liberty in Peril: Democracy and Power in American History, fills in some very substantial gaps, particularly with regard to American

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  • Why America Shouldn’t Be Too Concerned About Venezuela

    Why America Shouldn’t Be Too Concerned About Venezuela0

    Perhaps Karl Marx’s greatest (and most quoted) aphorism is: “History repeats itself; once as tragedy, the second time as farce.” Nowhere is the truth of that clearer than in the case of Venezuela. When the late Hugo Chavez was elected to the presidency there in 1998, everybody in Washington imagined that this was a replay

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