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  • The Chinese Communist Party and Their Brave New World

    The Chinese Communist Party and Their Brave New World0

    “Graham Allison (China expert and Harvard professor) knows of a Shanghai deputy mayor who says he looks forward to the day when every upper-middle class family in Shanghai has an American house-boy.” – Aaron Sarin Every once in a great while an online article will reach out from the screen of my laptop, grab me

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  • The Children at Play in Congress

    The Children at Play in Congress0

    “Where do the children play?” is the refrain from a 1970 Cat Stevens song in which the singer-songwriter warned about the dangers of skyscrapers, roads, and plans to the environment. Well, here we are, forty-nine years later, and children are still romping around playgrounds, parks, backyards, woods, and sandboxes. Oh, yes — and the halls

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  • The Children are in Charge

    The Children are in Charge0

    We live in strange times. At once both the tyranny and fragility of young Americans is on display. Over at Yale, earlier this week we were treated to the following reaction over Halloween costumes that some folks clearly thought were offensive:  When a student gets away with screaming at a professor to “be quiet” and

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  • The Childhood Quality That’s the Best Predictor of Health, Wealth, and Happiness

    The Childhood Quality That’s the Best Predictor of Health, Wealth, and Happiness0

    If you were presented with the opportunity to instill one, and only one, quality in your children, what would it be? Perhaps, like Solomon of old, you would be tempted to choose something like a long life, or great wealth, or even freedom from harm for your offspring. After all, what parents don’t desire happiness

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  • The Child I Almost Had

    The Child I Almost Had8

    I sit down to write this as yet another person expresses support on social media for those talking about how the Supreme Court overturning Roe vs. Wade is a tragedy. Indeed, they liken it to an infringement of some strange “natural” freedom all women should enjoy, as if abortion is a good thing. This time,

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  • The Chicken and the Egg of Educational Choice

    The Chicken and the Egg of Educational Choice0

    Tell me if you’ve heard this chestnut before: “We can’t let parents choose their child’s school because they don’t have enough information to make a good choice.” Lord knows I have. Like many old adages that have a kernel of truth suffocating under a pile of manure, this statement does have some merit. Insofar as

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