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  • Three Cheers for the Industrial Revolution–and the Fossil Fuels that Drove it

    Three Cheers for the Industrial Revolution–and the Fossil Fuels that Drove it0

    In an article for CapX last week, I discussed Johan Norberg’s new book, Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future. As Norberg notes, over the last two centuries, humanity has made massive improvements in terms of nutrition, sanitation, life expectancy, poverty, violence, literacy, environmental quality, political freedom and child labor. Today, I want to discuss the role that

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  • Three Charts Showing How Childbearing Varies Across the US

    Three Charts Showing How Childbearing Varies Across the US0

    Falling U.S. fertility rates have been making headlines. These reports tend to focus on a single measure: the average number of children that women have, nationally. However, this one number masks large and interesting variation in people’s childbearing behavior. The National Survey of Family Growth – one of the best sources of information on this

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  • Three Bits of Advice for a Trump News Network

    Three Bits of Advice for a Trump News Network0

    Following Donald Trump’s concession of the 2020 presidential race, what the president does next after leaving the White House will quickly become a topic of interest. If Trump’s fallout with Fox News is actually as stark as reported, he may indeed soon start his own cable news channel to rival Fox’s empire. Speculation remains as

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  • Three Athletes Take a Stand Instead of a Knee

    Three Athletes Take a Stand Instead of a Knee0

    With the Black Lives Matter movement quickly becoming the cause du jour after George Floyd’s death, the case of athletes kneeling during America’s national anthem went from being a high-profile, but rather uncommon action (which the National Football League banned in 2018 before an about face this year) to being so common among millionaire athletes as to be practically meaningless.

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  • Three Atheists Explain Why the Bible Should Be Taught in Schools

    Three Atheists Explain Why the Bible Should Be Taught in Schools0

    Ask most Americans if the Bible should be read in schools and a majority will likely say no. After all, the Supreme Court ruled in 1963 that states and school boards may not require the Bible to be read in schools… so doesn’t that mean that its presence should be completely abolished? Even though the

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  • Three Approaches to Suffering

    Three Approaches to Suffering0

    Writing from Britain during some of the darkest days of World War II, Catholic mystic Caryll Houselander published This War is the Passion in the hope that it would help Britons deal with the constant stress and anxiety as well as, and most importantly, the suffering that comes from war and life. While she wrote

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