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  • To Build Up America, We Must Start Close to Home

    To Build Up America, We Must Start Close to Home19

    In his inaugural address, John F. Kennedy famously urged, “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” That sentence shines with rhetorical beauty and balance, but might be more accurate by changing one word: “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you

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  • To Be Happy, First Be Pessimistic

    To Be Happy, First Be Pessimistic0

    We all want to be happy, but we’re not terribly good at it. As a result, for centuries philosophers have wrestled with how to attain happiness. Few, though, have offered as novel an answer as Marcus Aurelius, one of Rome’s greatest emperors. Ready for it? Be a pessimist. This is admittedly an unappealing proposition, ranking

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  • To Be an Individual, You Must First Accept Authority

    To Be an Individual, You Must First Accept Authority22

    Once, when giving a talk to a room full of young men, I told them to consider asking their parents to hold them accountable for what they did on the internet. Guffaws rippled through the crowd. “Our parents? Is he serious?” It wasn’t that they couldn’t imagine limits being placed on their online activity. (As

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  • To Be A Happy Person, Understand Marginal Utility

    To Be A Happy Person, Understand Marginal Utility0

    I’m at dinner and the hostess serves me pie for dessert. I gobble it up. Then the hostess says, “Would you like another piece?” I politely decline. In her head, she is thinking “he hates my pie,” but this is totally wrong. I love her pie, especially the first piece. But the second piece has

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  • To Ban or Not to Ban Critical Race Theory: A Debate

    To Ban or Not to Ban Critical Race Theory: A Debate0

    Not to Ban, by Walter E. Block: Extirpating Critical Race Theory (CRT) from schools is a hot-button issue for many politicians. While I do not take a position for or against CRT, I would like to assess the propriety of CRT being debated and taught at colleges and universities. Both proponents and opponents say that

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  • Tina Fey Savages Hollywood Hypocrisy

    Tina Fey Savages Hollywood Hypocrisy0

    If you’re wondering what explains some of the Trump phenomenon, look no further than the hypocrisy of our elites. Middle America rightly sees the hypocrisy of being chastised by entertainers, politicians, media elite, ivory tower educators, and others who say one thing and do another, who go on about greed but live the gilded life.

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