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  • Solzhenitsyn on Russia and the West

    Solzhenitsyn on Russia and the West0

    In 1998 I had the inestimable pleasure and honour of interviewing Alexander Solzhenitsyn at his home outside Moscow. As I traveled to Russia I had no idea why he should have granted me an exclusive interview when he had shunned the advances of Western writers much more accomplished and better known. He had a reputation

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  • Solitary Confinement is Quite Common In Public Schools

    Solitary Confinement is Quite Common In Public Schools0

    If parents were to lock their children in a confined space for a lengthy period of time, it is highly likely that those parents would be arrested for child abuse and their parental rights threatened. (In fact, this just happened in Arizona recently.) If public schools do this, however, the outcome is quite different. The

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  • Solar Roads: Another Government-Funded Energy Failure

    Solar Roads: Another Government-Funded Energy Failure0

    • August 23, 2019

    Surprise – solar panels don’t make great roads. The French government recently learned this the hard way after debuting a $6 million solar road in Normandy in 2016. The road generated about half as much power as expected, and costs exceeded any reasonable expectation for a road…or even a solar panel. An American experiment in solar roads fared similarly.

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  • Solar Panels Literally Produce Tons of Toxic Waste

    Solar Panels Literally Produce Tons of Toxic Waste1

    A Popular Choice Solar panels have been heralded as the alternative to fossil fuels for decades. Most readers have likely seen exciting headlines claiming we could power the world’s energy demands multiple times were we simply to cover the Sahara Desert with a solar farm the size of China. The fact that such endeavors would

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  • Sociologist: “The World is More Religious Than It Has Ever Been”

    Sociologist: “The World is More Religious Than It Has Ever Been”0

    • January 4, 2016

    Many of us assume that the world is increasingly secular and decreasingly religious. But according to sociologist Rodney Stark, that’s just not true. His latest book, The Triumph of Faith: Why the World Is More Religious than Ever, begins with the following claim: “The world is more religious than it has ever been. Around the

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  • Society Sends Too Many Mixed Messages to Boys

    Society Sends Too Many Mixed Messages to Boys0

    Participation in the Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts has been a rite of passage for many young Americans for decades. But in recent years, these two organizations have gone from being a simple part of youth to a battleground for the political ideas which play out on a national stage. Thus, when news came out

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