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  • Politician Triggers Parenting Debate after Leaving Son ‘Home Alone’

    Politician Triggers Parenting Debate after Leaving Son ‘Home Alone’0

    In recent years, Americans seem to fly off the handle every time some parent loosens the leash and allows a child to practice fending for himself. Apparently, those cases are now spreading to Great Britain, with parliamentarian Michael Gove being exhibit A. According to news reports, Gove and his wife left their 11-year-old son behind

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  • Politically Correct Myths About Race and Student Misbehavior Shackle Teachers

    Politically Correct Myths About Race and Student Misbehavior Shackle Teachers1

    School officials sometimes refuse to suspend violent or disruptive students just because they are black, and school administrators believe that “too many” black students have already been suspended compared to the number of whites. Former school official Edmund Janko describes how he himself did this, to achieve a veiled racial quota, in a City Journal

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  • Political Utopianism and Christianity Are Incompatible

    Political Utopianism and Christianity Are Incompatible0

    “Immanentizing the eschaton” is a political and theological term in which a person or group attempts to bring about, through human action, a heaven-like existence on Earth. Seeking utopianism, in other words. Living in this fallen world, it’s unlikely that we’ll ever see the quest for utopia realized. Those who hope and work for it

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  • Political Science Needs More Viewpoint Diversity

    Political Science Needs More Viewpoint Diversity0

    Would academic political science benefit from more viewpoint diversity? Let’s start with the good news, which is that political science isn’t nearly the worst-off discipline on campus. This is not because its intellectual demographics are so great. Surveys, such as this one, of faculty members’ voter registration data suggest that poli sci does not contain nearly as

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  • Political Polarization Is About Feelings, Not Facts

    Political Polarization Is About Feelings, Not Facts0

    Politicians and pundits from all quarters often lament democracy’s polarized condition. Similarly, citizens frustrated with polarized politics also demand greater flexibility from the other side. Decrying polarization has become a way of impugning adversaries. Meanwhile, the political deadlock and resentment that polarization produces goes unaddressed. Ironic, right? Commentators rarely say what they mean by polarization. But

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  • Political Legitimacy Dies in 2020

    Political Legitimacy Dies in 20200

    The American political system may be on the eve of its worst legitimacy crisis since the Civil War. Early warning signals indicate that many states could suffer catastrophic failures in counting votes in November. The election will occur amidst the vast economic devastation inflicted by a political class that responded to COVID by seizing almost

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