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  • Pundit: The West’s Love of Open Borders is a ‘Suicide Pact’

    Pundit: The West’s Love of Open Borders is a ‘Suicide Pact’0

    One week after the suicide bombing in Manchester that claimed the lives of 23 adults and children, Manhattan Institute scholar Heather Mac Donald offers a stinging rebuke to those calling for “pledges of renewed diversity” and little else. Writing in City Journal, Mac Donald says the left’s faith in open borders is impregnable. “Nothing that

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  • Publius Rutilius Rufus: Rome’s ‘Last Honest Man’

    Publius Rutilius Rufus: Rome’s ‘Last Honest Man’2

    Banished for debasing the currency from his home city in what is now north-central Turkey, Diogenes of Sinope chose to beg in the streets of Corinth and Athens, live in a clay jar, and eschew wealth of any kind. The story is often told that he walked the streets with a lantern, looking in vain for

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  • Public Spaces in Decline: A Metric of Societal Health

    Public Spaces in Decline: A Metric of Societal Health1

    Former Trump official William Wolfe recently lamented the neglect steadily encroaching his local grocery store. “Let me tell you: I’ve never seen stores in such bad shape as they are now,” he wrote. “No one staffing the main check out lines, massive line for the self check outs, stores messy, items unstocked. … It’s like

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  • Public Shootings and Narcissism

    Public Shootings and Narcissism0

    • August 26, 2015

    This morning, a Virginia news reporter and cameraman were tragically shot dead on live TV by a gunman dressed in black.  Now, news comes out from Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe that the shooter is most likely “a disgruntled employee of the station.” This means that the attack was probably timed to take place on live

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  • Public Schools: Tearing Human Minds to Pieces?

    Public Schools: Tearing Human Minds to Pieces?0

    Recently CNN and the Human Rights Campaign partnered to present an hours long forum with the Democratic presidential candidates on LGBT issues and the proposed Equality Bill. Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, and the rest all endorsed the bill, which would, among other things, repress biblical teaching and remove tax-exempt status from churches holding traditional beliefs regarding

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  • Public Schools Shouldn’t Be Teaching ‘Values’

    Public Schools Shouldn’t Be Teaching ‘Values’0

    America’s public schools are getting worse, and part of the reason why is that they have taken on too much responsibility. This point was made by the famous historian Jacques Barzun in his preface to his 1983 book Teacher in America: “There [in public schools], instead of initiatives to develop native intelligence and give it

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