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  • Middlebury Riot Shows the Veneer of Our Civilization is Thin

    Middlebury Riot Shows the Veneer of Our Civilization is Thin0

    On March 2, there was one of those oh-so-revealing events that makes people realize that very bad trends are at work in America, trends that are corroding the essence of civilization. Middlebury College in Vermont is a liberal arts school. The prolific author and American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray was asked to speak at

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  • Why We Should Fear the Deep State

    Why We Should Fear the Deep State0

    The notion of the “deep state” or a “state within a state” is creepy, to say the least. It indicates the existence of a shadowy group of unelected bureaucrats deeply embedded in the military-intelligence establishment secretly manipulating government policy. Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute defines the ‘deep state’ as “nothing more than agencies and

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  • Why does International Women’s Day Ignore Motherhood?

    Why does International Women’s Day Ignore Motherhood?0

    Today, March 8, is International Women’s Day, an occasion for celebrating what is unique about women’s contribution to society: their irreplaceable role as mothers, homemakers, educators, nurses — in short, all the person-centred and nurturing activity that they typically excel at and with which they increasingly transform other professions and society at large. WHAT? Sorry!

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  • The Virtues of Learning to Sew

    The Virtues of Learning to Sew0

    I find myself feeling nostalgic these days. My kids are growing up in a different world than the one I knew at their age. My childhood encompassed a time before personal computers, cell phones, and the internet. We had five channels on the television—my family lived so far out of town that we didn’t have

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  • ‘Logan’ and the Challenges of Fatherhood

    ‘Logan’ and the Challenges of Fatherhood0

    Hugh Jackman has been playing Wolverine for seventeen years and nine films, longer than his young co-star Dafne Keen has been alive. In Logan, his R-rated and final ride as the adamantium-clawed mutant, Jackman embraces his age and experience to play a grizzled, broken-down Wolverine, a man of violence who has lost his way—until a

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  • Can States Secede from the United States?

    Can States Secede from the United States?0

    While many believe that the American Civil War “settled” the issue of secession for all time, such a view must be met with the scrutiny of honest scholarship. The secession question seems particularly relevant today with the rise of the Calexit movement. And a candid study of historical context and the notes from the ratification debates

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