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  • A Desire to Fit In is the Root of Almost All Wrongdoing

    A Desire to Fit In is the Root of Almost All Wrongdoing0

    Imagine that one morning you discover a ring that grants you magic powers. With this ring on your finger, you can seize the presidency, rob Fort Knox and instantly become the most famous person on the planet. So, would you do it? Readers of Plato’s Republic will find this thought experiment familiar. For Plato, one

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  • A Depression-Era Rebuke for Social Justice Warriors

    A Depression-Era Rebuke for Social Justice Warriors0

    At present, the previously incessant caterwauling of social justice warriors has died down. With college campuses shuttered by the coronavirus pandemic and college adminstrations wondering if students will ever return, the hotbeds of liberal academia and far left political activism have fallen silent for the present at least. Student activism in the popular imagination is often

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  • A Democratic Congress Could Be a Perfect Foil for Trump

    A Democratic Congress Could Be a Perfect Foil for Trump0

    Did former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg just take a page out of the playbook of Senator Ed Muskie from half a century ago? In his first off-year election in 1970, President Richard Nixon ran a tough attack campaign to hold the 52 House seats the GOP had added in ’66 and ’68, and to

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  • A Delicate Balance: What to Make of the Link Between Falling Bat Populations and Rising Infant Mortality

    A Delicate Balance: What to Make of the Link Between Falling Bat Populations and Rising Infant Mortality4

    A fascinating study recently published in Science found that human lives may depend on the fate of bats. Not directly, of course. Rather, it’s the bat’s unique role in the ecosystems they inhabit that’s important for us. As a result, the decline of bat populations endangers human populations in an unexpected manner. The link between

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  • A Decline in Reading Skills Makes Geese for the Plucking

    A Decline in Reading Skills Makes Geese for the Plucking1

    A teacher-friend of mine recently expressed sadness over the stagnation of her students. Before the pandemic she could see students steadily gaining ground. Now she was seeing zero progress on their tests—and maybe even some declines. Tests aren’t everything, she admitted, yet after struggling through online teaching and masks and other troubles, she was disheartened

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  • A Date which will Live in Infamy

    A Date which will Live in Infamy0

    74 years ago today, the Japanese launched a surprise attack against the United States at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The devastation was immense, but the action did not knock the United States out of the war as the Japanese hoped. Here is President Roosevelt’s complete speech to Congress requesting a declaration of war. It includes

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