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  • Why the U.S. Education Secretary is Wrong on Homeschooling

    Why the U.S. Education Secretary is Wrong on Homeschooling0

    At a recent breakfast for reporters, U.S. Secretary of Education John King was asked for his opinion on homeschooling. The Secretary’s most worrisome concern about the movement? A lack of socialization. Education Week reports: “[King] worries that homeschoolers may not get the kind of interaction with other adults or much experience with their peers, ‘unless

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  • Why the Sudden Frenzy Against Plastic Straws?

    Why the Sudden Frenzy Against Plastic Straws?0

    If you took a nice summer vacation, you might have missed the latest frenzy in American political culture: the huge movement to ban plastic straws. It’s real. Several cities in California have passed “straw-on-request” laws. Companies such as Starbucks have promised to eliminate them in two years, though one wonders how paper is going to

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  • Why the Straw Man Fallacy Is Everywhere Today

    Why the Straw Man Fallacy Is Everywhere Today0

    • November 8, 2017

    Straw men are easy to push over. So are people’s arguments when we oversimplify them, reducing them to a flimsy caricature of what their proponents actually mean. Hence the name for this particular logical fallacy: the straw man fallacy. Boston College professor Peter Kreeft writes that it “consists in refuting an unfairly weak, stupid or

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  • Why the State Seeks to Abolish Both Tradition and History

    Why the State Seeks to Abolish Both Tradition and History2

    In the opening monologue of the much-beloved musical Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye the milkman compares life for the Jewish inhabitants of the village Anatevka to the balancing act required of a fiddler scratching out a tune on a rooftop. According to Tevya’s famous allegory, the people of Anatevka are able to keep their balance

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  • Why the Soviets Would Have Sent Kanye West to a Mental Hospital

    Why the Soviets Would Have Sent Kanye West to a Mental Hospital0

    President Trump has had some pretty theatrical meetings during his tenure in the Oval Office, and his time with Kanye West was no exception. The event created loads of publicity and commentary from both the left and the right. One of these commenters was Cenk Uygur, the well-known host of The Young Turks online news

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  • Why the Sex-Selective Abortion Debate Scares Feminists

    Why the Sex-Selective Abortion Debate Scares Feminists0

    It’s been a quarter century since Harvard economist Amartya Sen published research showing that more than 100 million women were “missing” from the global population.  Where were they? Two decades later, the answer to that question became clearer. In her Pulitzer Prize finalist book Unnatural Selection, Mara Hvistendahl detailed how females around the world were

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