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  • What Trump’s Executive Order on Refugees Does (And What it Doesn’t)

    What Trump’s Executive Order on Refugees Does (And What it Doesn’t)0

    Before I even had my Saturday morning coffee I received a text from a friend linking to a New York Times op-ed with the headline, “Trump’s Immigration Ban Is Illegal.” As I ground beans, the wife of a prominent conservative friend posted on Facebook that she was “heartbroken” over the ban, and that she promised

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  • What Trump Will Leave in Biden’s Inbox

    What Trump Will Leave in Biden’s Inbox0

    Dismissing President Donald Trump’s claim that the 2020 election remains undecided, Joe Biden has begun to name his national security team. Right now, it looks Democratic establishment all the way. Antony Blinken, a longtime foreign policy aide, is Biden’s choice for secretary of state. Jake Sullivan, one of Hillary Clinton’s closest aides, is said to

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  • What Trump Could Learn about Flattery from Reading Plutarch

    What Trump Could Learn about Flattery from Reading Plutarch0

    Nero may have fiddled while Rome burned, but it was the flattery of his courtiers that convinced the emperor he could get away with it. In his essay, “How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend,” the late Roman historian Plutarch gestures at Nero, speculating that if the emperor had known to silence his flatterers,

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  • What Today’s Young Men and Women Can Learn From the Abernathy Boys

    What Today’s Young Men and Women Can Learn From the Abernathy Boys0

    Ten years ago, Lenore Skenazy started the modern free range kids movement when she wrote a column about letting her nine-year-old son ride the New York subway home by himself. Highly criticized for such a move, Skenazy explains that the subway ride was her son’s idea, and only came after he begged long and hard

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  • What Today’s Supreme Court Ruling Could Mean For Schools

    What Today’s Supreme Court Ruling Could Mean For Schools0

    • June 26, 2015

    The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that citizens have a constitutional right to same-sex marriages. It goes without saying that the decision will have a broad-reaching societal impact, and could very well impact schools. How? As the New York Times reported on Wednesday, “The religious schools are concerned that if they continue to ban gay relationships, the Internal

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  • What Tocqueville Would Think about Modern Job Jumping

    What Tocqueville Would Think about Modern Job Jumping0

    Ever feel that Americans are increasingly on the go? If so, those feelings were recently confirmed, at least in terms of profession. A study by LinkedIn found that: “The new normal is for Millennials to jump jobs four times in their first decade out of college. That’s nearly double the bouncing around the generation before

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