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Stop Patronizing Parents’ School Choice Decisions, Please 0
- Education
- July 14, 2017
Whenever we engage in discussions around school choice (charter schools, vouchers, and so on), it’s important to remember the origins of the mass schooling apparatus. In the mid-19th century when the first compulsory schooling statutes took hold–mandating attendance under a legal threat of force–the bureaucrats most responsible for compelling school for the masses had no
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The Libertarian Edition of ‘Game of Thrones’0
- Culture
- July 14, 2017
On Sunday, HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones returns for its seventh season. To mark the occasion, ReasonTV offered up freedom-filled parody that is, well, brilliant. Don’t take it from me; watch for yourself. (WARNING: This content contains hilarious profanity) Save this article to favorites
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Why Are Some Academics Angry?0
- Culture
- July 13, 2017
A college professorship sounds like a golden gig to most people: Read books at your leisure, meet with adoring students, teach a few classes, and otherwise lounge in ivy-covered ivory towers commensurate to your lofty status… To the contrary! Having been an adjunct lecturer in a major university, I can confirm that professors often work
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16 Things You Didn’t Know About Julius Caesar 0
- Culture
- July 13, 2017
On July 13, 100 B.C., Julius Caesar was born in Rome to a patrician family of relatively modest means. During his formative years, Rome was transforming and expanding. Caesar, perhaps seeing the success of his uncle, the statesman and general Gaius Marius, set his eyes on a career in the Roman military. He spent much
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Labor Unions are Now Filing Grievances against Goats 0
- Culture
- July 13, 2017
A major union is rallying its supporters to battle the latest job-stealing enemy: goats. The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the University of Michigan have had a well-established working relationship with each other for years. But this is largely because the labor union holds a contract with the school, barring
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Why Today’s Kids Need More Time to Goof Off 0
- Culture
- July 13, 2017
Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is known world over for its deep lessons on racism and equality. In focusing on these lessons however, it’s easy to breeze by the simple, lighthearted picture with which the book opens, namely, that of children goofing off and having a good time in the summer. That lesson
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Stop Patronizing Parents’ School Choice Decisions, Please 0