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  • What ’70s Kids Did That Today’s Kids Don’t

    What ’70s Kids Did That Today’s Kids Don’t2

    Louise Bates Ames is one of the psychologists who popularized the idea of child development milestones. In the late ’70s, she wrote a series of books outlining what kids are capable of at different ages. The one you may have heard about is “Your Six-Year-Old: Loving and Defiant.” That’s thanks to Chicago blogger Christie Whitley,

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  • Western Leftists Loved Stalinism and Maoism, Despite Their Horrors

    Western Leftists Loved Stalinism and Maoism, Despite Their Horrors1

    I recently had the opportunity to travel to the Texas Tech University School of Law to debate the merits of capitalism versus socialism with Ben Burgis, a columnist for Jacobin and philosophy instructor at Georgia State University Perimeter College. It was a riveting discussion, and I hope students left with not just a better understanding of the horrors

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  • Western Elites Still Clueless About Jihadist Attacks

    Western Elites Still Clueless About Jihadist Attacks0

    As soon as I heard that a man had stabbed three women to death and wounded seven others in the Bavarian town of Würzburg on June 25, I was near-certain of three key facts of the case: that the attacker was a Muslim, that the powers-that-be would claim to be mystified as to his motives,

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  • Were the Wars Wise? Were They Worth It?

    Were the Wars Wise? Were They Worth It?0

    Through the long Memorial Day weekend, anyone who read the newspapers or watched television could not miss or be unmoved by it: Story after story after story of the fallen, of those who had given the “last full measure of devotion” to their country. Heart-rending is an apt description of those stories; and searing are

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  • Were the Founders Deist? Here’s One Sure-Fire Piece of Evidence Against That Idea

    Were the Founders Deist? Here’s One Sure-Fire Piece of Evidence Against That Idea6

    Although some of America’s Founding Fathers were deists, rather than Christians, the United States owes a debt of gratitude to a Judeo-Christian moral framework that goes beyond mere deism—and the proof is in the Declaration of Independence itself. Deism refers to the belief that God created the world and endowed human beings with reason, but after that, he

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  • Were Native Americans the First Conservationists?

    Were Native Americans the First Conservationists?0

    Over the past several decades, the environmental movement has promoted a view of American Indians as the “original conservationists.” References to this image abound: “The Indians were, in truth, the pioneer ecologists of this country,” former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall once said. “For many thousands of years, most of the indigenous nations on

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