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  • Portland: A Preview of Civil War?

    Portland: A Preview of Civil War?0

    Last week, Rasmussen Reports released a poll that revealed 31% of Americans think a U.S. civil war is likely soon. 59% of all voters are concerned that “those opposed to President Trump’s policies will resort to violence.”   On Saturday, June 30, a group called Patriot Prayer held a free-speech rally and march after applying

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  • How Early America Overcame Unrest and Cultural Diversity

    How Early America Overcame Unrest and Cultural Diversity0

    America’s last several years have been fraught with dissension. Tempers have flared and arguments have been fought in the months since Donald Trump was elected president, causing many to plead for civility and rationality in interactions. But now the gloves seem to be coming off. Several venues seem to be suggesting that civility is not

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  • How Democracies Become Tyrannical

    How Democracies Become Tyrannical0

    For most of the last three centuries, the ideas of liberty and democracy have been intertwined in the minds of both friends and foes of a free society. The substitution of absolute monarchies with governments representative of the voting choices of a nation’s population has been considered part and parcel with the advancement of freedom

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  • Can Americans Remember the Virtue of Independence (and the Corrosiveness of Dependence)?

    Can Americans Remember the Virtue of Independence (and the Corrosiveness of Dependence)?0

    If this 4th of July you reflect on the future of liberty, you will not be alone. Many Americans believe freedom is in decline. The Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom confirms the decline. Their latest 2018 data places the United States as only the 18th freest country in the world. Are politicians to blame? Or, do the politicians

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  • Academic Publishing Is a Total Mess. Here Are 6 Ways to Fix It.

    Academic Publishing Is a Total Mess. Here Are 6 Ways to Fix It.1

    The world of scholarly communication is broken. Giant, corporate publishers with racketeering business practices and profit margins that exceed Apple’s treat life-saving research as a private commodity to be sold at exorbitant profits. Only around 25 per cent of the global corpus of research knowledge is ‘open access’, or accessible to the public for free

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  • Is It a Problem if Kids Don’t Know How to Use Dictionaries?

    Is It a Problem if Kids Don’t Know How to Use Dictionaries?0

    When one of my younger siblings asked me the meaning of a word, my immediate response was: “Let’s look it up in the dictionary.” Giving me a look like I had just suggested that we send someone a note via smoke signal instead of text, my sister replied, “Patience, you have your phone right there.

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