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  • Mr. Jones and the Soviet Lie

    Mr. Jones and the Soviet Lie1

    The socialist experiment in Russia during the twentieth century was more than a failed attempt at central planning. The Soviet experience was a lie — a crumbling façade — that required routine maintenance by a vast empire of politicians, journalists, and academics (especially economists) who believed that the New Nation was one step closer to utopia.

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  • Movies for Isolation, 1939 Edition

    Movies for Isolation, 1939 Edition0

    By the common acclamation of many critics and film historians, as well as amateur aficionados like me, 1939 was the most notable single year for the release of great movies in the golden age of American filmmaking. Everyone knows it is the year that gave us Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz.

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  • Move Over, Entitled Millennials

    Move Over, Entitled Millennials0

    Millennials have long had a reputation for being the “Me” generation, a label which seems increasingly accurate as many college students exhibit a hyper-sensitivity, narcissism, and entitled attitude toward life. But such attitudes may soon begin to cost millennials dearly. According to Business Insider, Generation Z may be taking a different approach to life, and

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  • Move Over, ACT, and Make Way for the Test of Choice and Innovation

    Move Over, ACT, and Make Way for the Test of Choice and Innovation2

    Do you remember taking the ACT test? I do. It was a brisk fall morning, and rows upon rows of us high school students were stuck inside, slaving over test questions, with no sounds but typing calculators, scratching pencils, and the tread of proctor feet moving slowly up and down the aisles. Students today still

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  • Move Over Obama, Trump Has a Pen, a Phone… and a Tweet

    Move Over Obama, Trump Has a Pen, a Phone… and a Tweet0

    President Trump spent the weekend embroiled in yet another Twitter skirmish, this time with retiring Republican Senator Bob Corker. Trump may even have suffered a rare defeat on his own turf, based on Corker’s hilarious rejoinder about someone missing their daycare shift at the White House. If Trump has a soul, even he laughed at

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  • Motley Fool Columnist: Why Americans Should Stop Whining and Be Thankful

    Motley Fool Columnist: Why Americans Should Stop Whining and Be Thankful0

    • August 21, 2015

    Last year, prompted by Louis C.K.’s bit on the Conan O’Brien show, Morgan Housel at the Motley Fool put together a list titled “50 Reasons We’re Living Through the Greatest Period in World History.” Below are his first 10 reasons: 1. U.S. life expectancy at birth was 39 years in 1800, 49 years in 1900, 68 years

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