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What Parents Can Learn From this 4-Year-Old Reading Prodigy 0
- Education
- January 13, 2017
As The Washington Post reported, the Library of Congress had a special visitor Wednesday: 4-year-old Daliyah Arana. But Daliyah wasn’t visiting the library as just any old tourist. She was visiting as the “librarian of the day.” According to the WaPo, Daliyah attained this special status for her stellar reading ability. Even though she has
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No, Not Everyone Is Entitled to Their Opinion 2
- Education
- January 13, 2017
It’s commonly believed today that “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.” What nonsense. Where does this “entitlement” regarding opinions come from? Who has bestowed it? The statement is a decidedly modern one. No person until very recently in history would have dreamed of saying something so silly. It’s usually attributed to the American financier
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Is it Rational to Fear Corporations More than Governments?0
- Culture
- January 13, 2017
I recently had a delightful discussion with a friend who is a physician—we’ll call her Kortney—about the Affordable Care Act. I’ve long been skeptical of the idea that the federal government could create an efficient and affordable consumer marketplace for healthcare, a notoriously complicated and expansive system that touches many industries. Recent developments, I said,
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Millennials Who Borrowed Money to Get a Degree Got Destroyed (See Chart)0
- Culture
- January 13, 2017
If there’s one generation that has become the scapegoat for the nation’s problems, it’s the millennials. They don’t get married and start families. They live in mom’s basement and don’t buy their own house. They drift from job to job and school to school trying to find their “passion.” In short, they can’t “adult.” But
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Populism Has Finally Beat Progressivism 0
- History
- January 13, 2017
With a Trump presidency at hand an inescapable historical irony deserves to be noted. If there was a time in our history—and there was—when progressivism bested populism, this is a moment when populism has returned the favor. To be sure, the populism of today is not exactly the same version of populism that the progressives
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The One Thing Even High-Quality Childcare Can’t Offer 0
- Culture
- January 13, 2017
There’s a lot of discussion these days about the high cost of raising a child and caring for him. In fact, just this week, the USDA rolled out its numbers on the cost of raising a child. Warning: It’s not very pretty: “[F]or a child born in 2015, a middle-income married-couple family will spend between
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What Parents Can Learn From this 4-Year-Old Reading Prodigy 0