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  • What the Founders Understood About Religious Freedom That We Must Recover

    What the Founders Understood About Religious Freedom That We Must Recover0

    Friday, Dec. 15, marks the anniversary of the day our young nation ratified the Bill of Rights in 1791. Given the national discussion in recent days over whether the government may compel speech from an ordinary baker, now is an especially good time to consider the very first words of our charter document: “Congress shall

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  • What the Founders Actually Thought About Slavery

    What the Founders Actually Thought About Slavery0

    One of the ironies of the current American “elite” is that, rather than actually being elite, they have the smug self-assurance of knowing much that isn’t so. Recently, a video surfaced of South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a Harvard University graduate and Rhodes scholar, explaining to a group of high school students why the

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  • What the Fake History of Guns Can Teach Us

    What the Fake History of Guns Can Teach Us0

    In 2000, Emory University history professor Michael Bellesiles published the book Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture. The central argument of the book was that the culture of American gun ownership does not date back to the colonial era and, instead, emerged in the middle of the nineteenth century when technological advances made

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  • What the Evolution of Jealousy Tells Us About Online Infidelity

    What the Evolution of Jealousy Tells Us About Online Infidelity0

    It is estimated that by 2020, 2.95 billion people will be using social networks. But while sites like Facebook revolve around the wholesome concepts of friends, likes and shares, they have also become a way for people to cheat on their partners. The problem is so rife, it seems, that suspicious partners are breaking into

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  • What the Editors are Reading: ‘Our Man: Richard Holbrooke’

    What the Editors are Reading: ‘Our Man: Richard Holbrooke’0

    Richard Holbrooke was the most shameless self-promoter in Washington D.C., a town that specialized in self-promotion, as George Packer writes in Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century. He was a social climber par excellence, a sycophant who embarrassed Barack Obama with his flattery to such an extent that he was banned from the

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  • What the Editors Are Reading:

    What the Editors Are Reading:0

    First published in 1936 as the nation was still reeling from the Great Depression, Who Owns America? A New Declaration of Independence remains a classic of American political thought and rhetoric. A collection of 21 essays, edited by the Fugitive-Agrarian Allen Tate and historian Herbert Agar, it was intended in part as a sequel to the better-known I’ll Take My

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