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The Intellectual Roots of Martin Luther King Jr.0
- Culture
- January 13, 2017
It’s typical of the progressive cast of our culture to focus on the forward-looking at the expense of the traditional—or if you prefer, to miss the traditional elements that lie at the heart of a genuinely progressive movement. So it is that in celebrating the accomplishments of Martin Luther King, Jr., his connection to the
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The Intellectual Purpose of Education: Why ‘Impractical’ Subjects Are Still Worth Learning1
- Education
- October 4, 2023
It’s a complaint I’ve heard often, and (I’ll confess) occasionally spoken myself: “What use is learning math? It’s not like it’s going to help me in life!” In eighth grade geometry, the complaints seemed legitimate. Why was I calculating the angles of triangle XYZ? I didn’t know what career I was going to pursue, but—at
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The Intellectual Dishonesty of the Campaign Against the Electoral College0
- History
- April 11, 2019
A full-blown war is raging against the Electoral College. But as activist groups become more desperate to overturn our way of electing presidents before voters go the polls in November 2020, their arguments become more absurd and hyperbolic. CNN recently ran a preposterous segment suggesting that James Madison called the Electoral College “evil,” a shameful
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The Intellectual Absurdity of Championing Diversity While Condemning ‘Cultural Appropriation’2
- Culture
- May 18, 2018
Frequent CD commenter Morganovich shared some comments by email yesterday, which inspired the Venn diagram above. With permission, I’ve taken the liberty of expanding Morganovich’s commentary supplemented with some of my own comments but giving him full credit for the main thrust and most of the text below. Here’s Morganovich: I had a moment of
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The Institutional Breakdown Behind Gun Violence1
- Culture, Education, Family, Politics, Western Civilization
- June 29, 2022
Too many of our nation’s young men use guns for evil. One knee-jerk response is to restrict gun ownership. But this solution ignores the most important question: What drives these young men to murder? I’m personally all for trying to keep guns away from people with criminal records, mental illness, and histories of making violent threats.
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The Instant Pot Can Teach Us a Lot About Capitalism (and the Key to Entrepreneurial Success)0
- Economics
- January 8, 2018
You don’t have to search far to read claims that capitalism is centered on greed and selfishness. For some, the assertion seems self-evident as they read, for example, stories of pharmaceutical companies dramatically increasing the price of important drugs. Those who hold a “capitalists are greedy” usually belief fail to distinguish between crony capitalists—who make
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