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  • The ’30 Days of Gas Station Food’ Experiment Holds an Important Nutritional Lesson for Americans

    The ’30 Days of Gas Station Food’ Experiment Holds an Important Nutritional Lesson for Americans0

    For most of human history, the primary concern of most people was getting enough food to eat. The invention of capitalism finally enabled the majority of people in market-based societies to focus on higher pursuits. Ironically, capitalism is now widely blamed for causing obesity—because of the availability of fast food, “food deserts,” or simply because

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  • That Way Madness Lies: Transgenderism and Linguistics

    That Way Madness Lies: Transgenderism and Linguistics0

    “The ordinary acceptation of words in their relation to things was changed as men thought fit,” Thucydides records in his History of the Peloponnesian War. Those lines, written some 2,400 years ago, carry remarkable relevance for today as we witness contemporary society commit the same error of the Corcyreans that Thucydides commented on. And it’s a

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  • That Teacher Who Got Impregnated by a 13-Year-Old Was Sentenced

    That Teacher Who Got Impregnated by a 13-Year-Old Was Sentenced0

    Via the Washington Post: A former Texas middle-school teacher who was impregnated by a 13-year-old student has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Alexandria Vera, 25, was facing up to 30 years behind bars after pleading guilty to aggravated sexual assault of a child in November. She admitted to police that a relationship that

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  • That Poll on Socialism Is Not as Alarming as It Seems

    That Poll on Socialism Is Not as Alarming as It Seems0

    Every poll needs a headline takeaway. This one was a heck of a thing to wake up to: “Four in 10 Americans Embrace Some Form of Socialism.” The poll comes from Gallup. It compares attitudes toward socialism today in the U.S. with a similar poll in 1942. Back 77 years ago, 25 percent of Americans

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  • That Guy Who Tried to Assassinate George Washington in 1776

    That Guy Who Tried to Assassinate George Washington in 17760

    In June 1776, when the future of the American colonies looked bleak, a plot to assassinate Gen. George Washington was laid bare. Washington and the Continental Army were in New York, a city described by one historian as “a citadel of Tory sentiment.” Because Loyalist sentiment was so strong, many feared for the safety of

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  • That Alexander Hamilton Had One Messed Up Childhood

    That Alexander Hamilton Had One Messed Up Childhood1

    Interest in Alexander Hamilton, the man commonly dubbed America’s “most brilliant” Founding Father, has spiked following the success of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway “>musical: Hamilton. While I’ve yet to see the musical, I have read the book that inspired Miranda’s work: Ron Chernow’s stunning biography, Alexander Hamilton. It is perhaps the single best biography I’ve read,

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