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In a country based on the principle of liberty, should we really contemplate depriving people of freedom because they sometimes don’t make choices experts think are best for them? My title really understates the liberty-depriving philosophy of the nanny state. More accurately, it is: Some people make what we think are bad choices, so we
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We’ve all seen the evolving wokeness of the U.S. military. That wokeness is now growing so entrenched that American Thinker’s Andrea Widberg asks the question that many of us are wondering: “Is Biden deliberately destroying America’s military defenses?” Turning the attention of readers to a new program offered by the U.S. Air Force Academy for
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Let’s face it: we all have holes in our education. In part, this is because we can only fit so much into the years of our formal education. But the holes in our education are also due to the fact that we no longer have a standard canon of sources that we are expected to
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In The Twilight of Authority the famous sociologist Robert Nisbet made a simply, yet profound comment about freedom, justice, and equality. To paraphrase, he reflected that he could imagine people believing that they would have enough freedom and justice. They knew it wasn’t perfect, but life was good enough. Of equality, though, he believed that
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So you have just been accused of being a bigot of some kind—you’re a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, a xenophobe, or some other horrible-sounding name. Don’t fool yourself. Everyone is a potential target. Anyone can be called out. Forget intersectionality. African-Americans, women, LGBTQ, Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, and all manner of foreign nationals have
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The season of dying seems to be upon my friends and me. Last year, it was my step-father; last week, it was a good friend’s dad. In past years there have been others I know who have passed on and, of course, plenty of scares along the way. One thing that troubles me is how
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