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How often are we told by our friends on the left that America ought to follow the lead of Europe, specifically western Europe, and make college “free”? Pretty often, by my reckoning. In the waning years of my community college teaching days a student raised that very matter on the first day of class. Obviously,
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Nations across the world are still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, which triggered a global recession following economic lockdowns enforced by most developed nations around the world. New estimates put the economic losses at more than $16 trillion, and the United States saw its GDP shrink 9.5 percent between April and June, its largest drop
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There are virtue-based societies, and there are rule-based societies. America has become the latter. In a virtue-based society, the people are a particular community that have a shared understanding of human life and a shared goal. The virtues are the behavioral habits that help achieve this goal—such as prudence, justice, courage, and temperance—and the community’s
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There’s a lot of talk these days about the problem with young, uninspired, and allegedly lazy males. According to Pew Research, this problem is evident in the fact that young men ages 18 to 34 are more likely to live at home with a parent than are young women of the same age. According to
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The first state dinner hosted by the Trumps was received with great pomp, circumstance, and, per usual, titter over the little details. Perhaps not surprisingly, it was First Lady Melania Trump’s fashion choices that generated a lot of attention. Her gown for the dinner. The black outfit she wore when she visited Mount Vernon. The
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There are over 4,000 colleges and universities in the United States. There are only four that are all male. But that is at least one too many, apparently. A California Appeals Court ruled last week that Deep Springs College, a school with only twenty-six students, may start admitting women. Founded a century ago by industrialist
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