According to a 2016 poll, more than 60 percent of Americans are in support of offering free tuition at public universities. Given recent developments in New York, that dream may be closer to reality than many think. Such wide support for free college is not surprising, especially considering that Americans regularly hear that a person
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As I’ve pointed out elsewhere, a large percentage of students in public schools today are being trained to view the world primarily through the lenses of race, class, and gender. Another good example of this phenomenon came to my attention last week in Intellectual Takeout’s backyard. Highlands Elementary is a K-5 school in Edina Public
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Whenever a picture of one of the royal children comes out, it’s sure to be plastered over every magazine and newspaper for days to come. Such is the case with the latest birthday portrait of Princess Charlotte (shown above), which Kensington Palace posted on its Instagram page. As has been noted, the portrait shows that
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Well, it’s a pretty big deal when the Pope attacks libertarianism by name. It’s even more interesting when my Spanish-language publisher believes that the Pope, in an academic paper, was attacking language used by me in particular, by implication but without citation. In a choice passage, the Pope says that libertarianism “deceptively proposes a ‘beautiful
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On Friday, former Wall Street Journal writer Bret Stephens wrote his first column for the New York Times. And boy, did it cause a fuss. The column, headlined “Climate of Complete Certainty,” politely pushed back on the idea that the narrative of climate change is settled science. Stephens, referencing an article penned by Times writer
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It’s the Merry Month of May: Spring is bursting, the birds are singing…and political riots are detonating. Without a doubt, May is a month with motley associations—natural, religious, and political. In many ancient cultures May 1 was regarded as the full arrival of Spring, as expressed in the traditions of dancing around the maypole and
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