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  • 6 Reasons We’re in Trouble No Matter Who Becomes President

    6 Reasons We’re in Trouble No Matter Who Becomes President0

    Approximately half the U.S. population will wake up tomorrow (or soon after) with a sense of general satisfaction. The person for whom they voted (perhaps grudgingly) will become the next president of the United States. Even if they do not love the candidate, they will be affirmed. America is not crazy, they will think. The

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  • A 1791 Warning on Voter Fraud

    A 1791 Warning on Voter Fraud0

    We made it. Election day is FINALLY here. That means we can end the shouting, the arguments over who did this or that, and the accusations over whether or not voter fraud exists. Er, wait… scratch that last one. Accusations over voter fraud are more likely to intensify as the voting comes to a close.

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  • Scholar: ‘Fainting Couch’ Feminism Needs to Go

    Scholar: ‘Fainting Couch’ Feminism Needs to Go0

    There’s a growing narrative on college campuses that today’s students are oppressed and victims of insensitivity. Such a feeling seems to be particularly held by female students, who believe that their oppression is exacerbated by their gender. But according to scholar Christina Hoff Sommers, these young women need to get over their sensitivity and ditch

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  • The Last Hurrah of Old, White America?

    The Last Hurrah of Old, White America?0

    I’ve been told that once an approaching tsunami is sensed, many animals move inland to escape destruction. Maybe it’s true, maybe it’s not. What is true is that old, white America – the America that remembers apple pie and Jesus Christ – senses its impending, cultural doom.   In this line of work, I have

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  • Carl Schmitt: The Philosopher of Conflict

    Carl Schmitt: The Philosopher of Conflict0

    Now to Heidegger’s friend and colleague Carl Schmitt, who had also attacked liberalism incessantly before the Nazi period, enthusiastically served the Nazi state, and then brooded after the defeat and spent decades developing and promulgating anti-libertarian thinking across the political spectrum. Carl Schmitt was a German legal theorist whose book, The Concept of the Political, came to

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  • Daylight Savings Time Isn’t Worth the Trouble it Causes

    Daylight Savings Time Isn’t Worth the Trouble it Causes0

    Today the sun is shining during my commute home from work. But this weekend, public service announcements will remind us to “fall back,” ending daylight saving time (DST) by setting our clocks an hour earlier on Sunday, Nov. 6. On Nov. 7, many of us will commute home in the dark. This semiannual ritual shifts

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