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How Fiscally Healthy Is Your State?0
- Economics
- July 20, 2017
The Mercatus Center has released its fiscal rankings of each state in the nation. Find your state in the map above to see how highly (or lowly) it may have ranked: Here’s what the report’s authors, Eileen Norcross and Olivia Gonzalez, had to say about the five states occupying the fiscal basement in 2015, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts,
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Why ‘Vogue’’s Attempt to Embrace ‘Gender Fluidity’ Backfired 0
- Culture
- July 20, 2017
Vogue magazine might know what’s in vogue for fashion, but its latest attempts to seem culturally correct have failed miserably. This month, Vogue attempted to ally itself with the latest trend in inclusivity—gender fluidity—by featuring celebrity power couple Zayn Malik (formerly of the boy band One Direction) and model Gigi Hadid on its August cover. The headline? “Gigi Hadid
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What Children Lose By Not Gardening 0
- Culture
- July 19, 2017
One summer while I was in middle school, my grandfather brought my family a number of potato sets to plant in our garden. As we had more than we needed, I passed off a handful to my friend who lived across the street. Despite lacking a green thumb, she eagerly planted them in a corner
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My University Treated Me Like a Criminal Over a Joke 0
- Culture
- July 19, 2017
For the past six years, I have taught an undergraduate course on international economics at Johns Hopkins University. Most of my students thought it was a very good course. So I was shocked when, on December 6, 2016, I was met at the door of my classroom by Johns Hopkins security personnel and barred from entering.
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A Failed Defense of Campus Kangaroo Courts 0
- Culture
- July 19, 2017
A college president recently promoted fallacies about the law in order to justify federal micromanagement of school discipline. Writing in the Washington Post, Brooklyn College’s Michelle Anderson defended a 2011 letter from the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) dictating “the standard of proof in campus disciplinary proceedings.” It told colleges that had been using
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How Radical Feminism Sowed the Seeds of Our Transgender Moment 0
- Culture
- July 19, 2017
Today’s transgender movement is the latest effort to overturn what are in fact true assumptions about human life. My recent report, “Sex, Gender, and the Origin of the Culture Wars,” reveals the intellectual roots of today’s transgender movement so that citizens can defend common sense against the corruptions that this movement generates. Transgenderism literally means
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How Fiscally Healthy Is Your State?0