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  • The Student Debt Crisis is Real

    The Student Debt Crisis is Real0

    Normally, leftists get upset if there’s a big industry that charges high prices, engages in lots of featherbedding, and manipulates the political system for handouts. But for some reason, when the industry is higher education, folks like Hillary Clinton think the answer is to shower colleges and universities with ever-greater subsidies. She says the subsidies are

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  • Constitution at stake in this year’s election?

    Constitution at stake in this year’s election?0

    If Senate Republicans are true to their word, the next president of the United States will nominate Justice Antonin Scalia’s replacement. Given the age of several other members of the Supreme Court and rumors of others’ retirement, it is likely the next president will make as many as four nominations. This potentially dramatic change in

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  • Are we living in Mill’s ‘Stationary State’?

    Are we living in Mill’s ‘Stationary State’?0

    John Stuart Mill was a progressive in many ways. The English philosopher was a proponent of Benthem’s theory of utilitarianism, an abolitionist, and a feminist. (In fact, he was the first Member of Parliament to advocate women’s suffrage.) But Mill parted ways with other prominent thinkers—Marx and Nicolas Condorcet, among them—whose philosophies embraced man’s indefinite

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  • Why is the swear ‘c*nt’ way more offensive than ‘d*ck’?

    Why is the swear ‘c*nt’ way more offensive than ‘d*ck’?0

    Donald Trump was called a “loud mouth dick” on CNN last night, as most people have probably heard by now. It was not bleeped out, and Anderson Cooper didn’t miss a beat. CNN has not issued an apology. The naughty word was uttered by Liz Mair, a political and communications consultant mostly famous for going

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  • The Arrogant Ignorance of the ‘Well-Educated’

    The Arrogant Ignorance of the ‘Well-Educated’0

    On more than one occasion my essays for The Imaginative Conservative have been inspired by bumper stickers. Many moons ago, for instance, I wrote “The Wisdom and Wickedness of Women” in response to seeing a bumper sticker declaring that “Well Behaved Women Do Not Make History.” Recently, sitting in traffic, I saw this very same bumper sticker on

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  • Thomas Jefferson could teach Trump about American Greatness

    Thomas Jefferson could teach Trump about American Greatness0

    “The American Dream is dead,” Donald Trump has proclaimed. Trump assures us not to worry because he is “gonna make it bigger and better and stronger than ever before.” And then comes Trumps’ oft-repeated punchline: “We are going to make America great again.” Where is American Greatness Found? In his book The Concept of Mind,

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