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  • The American and French Revolutions Compared

    The American and French Revolutions Compared3

    One of the many differences between the American and French Revolutions is that, unlike the French, Americans did not fight for an abstraction. Americans initially took up arms against the British to defend and preserve the traditional rights of Englishmen. The slogan “no taxation without representation” aptly summed up one of their chief complaints. The

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  • The Amazing Maturity of the Young Declaration Signers

    The Amazing Maturity of the Young Declaration Signers1

    When we think of Independence Day and the men who affixed their signatures to the Declaration of Independence, it’s easy to lump them all together as wizened old men. But while some – such as 70-year-old Benjamin Franklin – were certainly getting up in age, many others were remarkably young. Consider the following list of

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  • The Amazing Maturity of the Young Declaration Signers

    The Amazing Maturity of the Young Declaration Signers2

    When we think of Independence Day and the men who affixed their signatures to the Declaration of Independence, it’s easy to lump them all together as wizened old men. But while some – such as 70-year-old Benjamin Franklin – were certainly getting up in age, many others were remarkably young. Consider the following list of

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  • The AMA Said Trust Your Doctor on Smoking

    The AMA Said Trust Your Doctor on Smoking1

    The American Medical Association (AMA) urges physicians to promote COVID-19 vaccines and bivalent boosters.  The AMA even supplies members with social media talking points and strategies to deal with vaccine detractors.  It is not the first time that my profession has endorsed a product that may be hazardous to your health. For most of the 20th century, the AMA turned a blind

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  • The Alt-Left is Real

    The Alt-Left is Real0

    When writing this piece, a quote kept rattling around in the back of my head. It was the title of the opening chapter of “The Feminine Mystique,” Betty Friedan’s seminal 1963 feminist manifesto: The Problem That Has No Name. Apologies in advance, for appropriating and altering three of the quotes I find most meaningful from

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  • The Alt Right’s Intellectual Roots Go Way Back

    The Alt Right’s Intellectual Roots Go Way Back0

    Reading “How I Left the Left” is a solid reminder that there’s not much intellectual heft remaining on that side of the fence. If an ideology sets out to isolate the locus of evil in people’s very identity, it is pretty well spent. This, in addition to the failure of the socialist model everywhere it has

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