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  • What the Catholic Church Said about the Public Schools in 1852

    What the Catholic Church Said about the Public Schools in 18520

    America is known as the “land of the free.” Yet, technically, it forces its children to receive some type of formal education. Compulsory education laws have been a part of the American Republic for a little over 150 years (they also existed in some Puritan settlements in colonial America). In all states, children between the

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  • What the Campus Protesters Don’t Understand About Civilization

    What the Campus Protesters Don’t Understand About Civilization5

    Recently, when disembarking a flight, the “thank you” I gave the pilot and crew was not perfunctory. Although my gratitude probably didn’t seem effusive from the outside, a depth of emotion touched me after I delivered it. Airline travel is one of the miracles of modern living, requiring human cooperation and coordination. Deeply, I felt

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  • What the Bud Light Scandal Could Mean for School Choice

    What the Bud Light Scandal Could Mean for School Choice1

    One of the most effective levers of influence in a free market system is the ability for consumers to take their business elsewhere. When Gillette released a marketing campaign in 2019 designed around criticizing “toxic masculinity,” alienating millions of men around the country, consumers responded by taking their business (about $5 billion of it) elsewhere. Gillette hasn’t

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  • What the Bathroom Wars Really Mean

    What the Bathroom Wars Really Mean0

    It’s understandable that some people are impatient, even disgusted, with all the fuss about which public bathrooms transgendered people get to use. Such feelings arise in part from the natural assumption that it shouldn’t be anybody’s business what people look like in the privacy of the stall.  At least as understandable, however, is the fear

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  • What the ancient Greeks would have thought of Donald Trump

    What the ancient Greeks would have thought of Donald Trump0

    You know them already, but you probably don’t have a name for them let alone an understanding of what drives them and why. They are called cholerics. They are one of the four temperaments identified in the proto-psychology of the ancient Greeks. And they have an innate sense of self-worth and ambition that drives them

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  • What the American Founders Meant by Equality

    What the American Founders Meant by Equality3

    The Declaration of Independence famously proclaimed that “all men are created equal.” Thanks in part to that prestigious endorsement, “equality” has become a widely held social ideal. But what most modern-day egalitarians promote is far removed from the kind of equality that the authors of the Declaration were referring to. Many today invoke “equality” to

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