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  • What the Magic Kingdom and American Culture Have in Common

    What the Magic Kingdom and American Culture Have in Common0

    Americans need not visit Orlando to go to Fantasyland. Instead, we can just pop onto the Internet and visit websites offering news and commentary. Day after day these sites trot out delusions concocted and entertained by some of our fellow citizens. If we could construct airships from these flights of fancy, we could touch down

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  • What the Left and Right Get Wrong About Immigration

    What the Left and Right Get Wrong About Immigration0

    Recently, the Supreme Court agreed to review a case concerning due process rights for non-citizens. The dispute between left and right on this question revolves around the complexity of due process for non-citizens – legal permanent immigrants, illegal immigrants, and temporary residents. Historically, both left and right have held different views on the role of non-citizens in

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  • What the Jeffrey Epstein Case Reveals About Female Sex Offenders

    What the Jeffrey Epstein Case Reveals About Female Sex Offenders0

    The recent indictment of Jeffrey Epstein for sex trafficking highlights the importance of understanding sex offenses perpetrated by women. Epstein allegedly did not act alone. In a variety of court filings, some of his female associates, most notably Ghislaine Maxwell, have been depicted as instrumental in his sexual encounters. None of them has been criminally

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  • What the Homeschooling Surge Reveals About Compulsory Education

    What the Homeschooling Surge Reveals About Compulsory Education0

    My sixth-grade visit to the Pavek Museum of broadcasting was the most memorable field trip of elementary school. The live radio broadcast my fellow students and I produced while there was probably why. As part of the broadcast, several students were instructed to write a news bulletin. The gist of it? The governor of Minnesota

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  • What the Holes in the Fossil Record Can Tell Us

    What the Holes in the Fossil Record Can Tell Us0

    The coelacanths are an ancient group of lobe-finned fishes, with weird appendages that take the form of bony, fleshy, muscular stalks. They’re well-represented in the fossil record all the way back to the Devonian period, some 390 million years ago. However, about 66 million years ago – the time of the dinosaurs’ demise – coelacanths

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  • What the Founding Fathers Got Wrong

    What the Founding Fathers Got Wrong0

    By any objective standard, it would be difficult to claim that the Constitution really matters at any practical level in the United States. At a symbolic level, it still means a great deal. But, what a disconnect: that it matters so much in our minds and language but that it means nothing in our day-to-day

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