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  • The End of Ideas in American Politics?

    The End of Ideas in American Politics?0

    Americans have long mistrusted intellectuals, nowhere more so than when intellectuals have had access to power. There is considerable irony in this apprehension, for the Founding Fathers were themselves men of intellect and learning. Refined and erudite, many were well and widely read in history, politics, law, and science, and applied their knowledge to solving

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  • The End of Education

    The End of Education0

    “The one thing that is never taught by any chance in the atmosphere of public schools,” wrote G. K. Chesterton, “is…that there is a whole truth of things, and that in knowing it and speaking it we are happy.”[1] Such words would be greeted with calculated coldness by the architects of the common core curriculum, who

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  • The End of ‘Believe All Women’

    The End of ‘Believe All Women’0

    Feminists haven’t been this silent since the Bill Clinton years. Vanessa Tyson came forward Wednesday to accuse Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexually assaulting her during the Democratic National Convention in Boston in 2004, saying in a statement that “What began as consensual kissing quickly turned into a sexual assault.” Tyson, now a politics

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  • The Emperor’s Old Age: Biden and the Deep State Con

    The Emperor’s Old Age: Biden and the Deep State Con1

    In Hans Christian Andersen’s classic folktale “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” a vain monarch pays two con artists to make an expensive suit of clothes that cannot be seen by fools. When the emperor and his ministers can’t see the clothes, they don’t say anything—after all, they don’t want to be taken for fools. When the

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  • The Emperor Is Wearing Pajamas: The Decline of Dress

    The Emperor Is Wearing Pajamas: The Decline of Dress0

    The modern attitude toward dress is that it has little effect on the way people function. In fact, people are advised that the more comfortable they are, the more efficient and happy they will be. People generally respond to such advice by collectively retreating into a shabby array of blue jeans or shorts, T-shirts or

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  • The Emerging Victimhood Culture is Scary

    The Emerging Victimhood Culture is Scary0

    • September 14, 2015

    By now you’ve most likely heard about the increasingly sanitized, PC culture that is coming to predominate on college campuses. And on a weekly basis you witness a public figure self-immolate in an attempt to quell the frenzied demand of a mob for an apology. So what’s going on? A recent scholarly paper from Bradley

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