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  • The Free Markets Case You Haven’t Heard About

    The Free Markets Case You Haven’t Heard About0

    A small, independent website designer in Colorado is getting national attention. Why? The US Supreme Court heard a case on Monday about whether the government can force her to say something that goes against her personal beliefs. While it’s one of the biggest free-speech cases this Supreme Court term, you may not have heard about

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  • The Four Pillars of Good Writing

    The Four Pillars of Good Writing0

    Which hard skill do recent college grads lack the most? In 2016, PayScale.com asked employers this question. The top response was “writing proficiency.” Wow. Our education system teaches few practical skills, but it does emphasize writing. So what gives? Incompetent teachers? Unteachable students? Actually, the problem for many college graduates is having absorbed their academic

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  • The Four Biggest Problems with Biden’s Vaccine Order

    The Four Biggest Problems with Biden’s Vaccine Order0

    Back in December of 2020, then President-elect Biden said that he would not make vaccines against COVID-19 mandatory, nor did he think they should be mandatory. Given the new vaccine mandate by the White House, set to affect nearly 100 million Americans by some estimates, one reasonably conclude that Biden misled the people. However, Biden’s

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  • The Founding Fathers on What to Do With Poor People

    The Founding Fathers on What to Do With Poor People0

    1. “I am for doing good to the poor, but…I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.” -Benjamin Franklin, 1766 (On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor) 2. “The government of the United States is

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  • The Founding Fathers on Education—and Education Today

    The Founding Fathers on Education—and Education Today0

    I was recently looking through Intellectual Takeout’s archives and once again stumbled upon Annie Holmquist’s article “Middle School Reading Lists 100 Years Ago vs. Today.” Annie’s comparison of how reading lists have changed reveals how students today aren’t held to as high of standards as students 100 years ago, and Annie’s commentary got me curious

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  • The Founders Were Not Education Centralizers

    The Founders Were Not Education Centralizers0

    Some of the more zealous partisans of tax-funded schooling have resorted to a curious (and dubious) claim: “America’s Founders are on our side.” The Founders, they say, promoted a government role in education. Therefore, they would have opposed school choice. Retired educator Mary Wilke, a correspondent for the Concord Monitor, recently quoted John Adams—co-author of the Declaration of Independence

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