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  • Don’t Kill the Penny

    Don’t Kill the Penny0

    Governments have long waged a war on cash in an attempt to curb terrorism and tax evasion. Their focus has typically been on eliminating large denominations, like Europe’s €500 bill or India’s 1,000 rupee note. Two U.S. lawmakers have a much smaller target in mind: the lowly penny, perhaps most commonly found in jars and

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  • To Be A Happy Person, Understand Marginal Utility

    To Be A Happy Person, Understand Marginal Utility0

    I’m at dinner and the hostess serves me pie for dessert. I gobble it up. Then the hostess says, “Would you like another piece?” I politely decline. In her head, she is thinking “he hates my pie,” but this is totally wrong. I love her pie, especially the first piece. But the second piece has

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  • Scottish NYU Student: U.S. Universities ‘Stifling’ and ‘Dangerously Insular’

    Scottish NYU Student: U.S. Universities ‘Stifling’ and ‘Dangerously Insular’0

    In a recent article for The Spectator, New York University journalism major Madeleine Kearns wrote about her first year at a U.S. university. The experience she describes does not sound very positive. Kearns, who was born in Glasgow, Scotland describes an environment that would have looked like a parody of a university setting a generation

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  • Study Reveals How Parents May Help Children Weather the Culture Wars

    Study Reveals How Parents May Help Children Weather the Culture Wars0

    When Donald Trump was first elected for president, the news media began to ask how parents could best raise their children under the shadow of his leadership. TIME suggested parents teach their daughters to resist sexism. Jezebel insisted that parents raise sons by “refusing to engage in reductive binaries.” And the Huffington Post suggested that

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  • Robert E. Lee Wasn’t Hitler

    Robert E. Lee Wasn’t Hitler0

    Many Americans are aware of the effort to remove Confederate monuments across America.  Whether one believes the effort is a justified action or misguided iconoclasm, there is no question the debate has opened old wounds. There are valid reasons why one may not one wish to have in their city or university a monument honoring

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  • Should an Armed Nazi Horde Be Permitted to Invade Your Town?

    Should an Armed Nazi Horde Be Permitted to Invade Your Town?0

    The American Civil Liberties Union has reversed itself to decide: now it’s gone too far. They will defend the right of speech, the right to associate, the right to protest and march. They will defend the rights of hate groups, hate speech, and the most egregious gatherings you can imagine. What they will no longer defend

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