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  • The ‘Everyone Gets a Trophy’ Mentality is Out of Control

    The ‘Everyone Gets a Trophy’ Mentality is Out of Control0

    Mark up another victory for the “everyone-gets-a-trophy” mentality. The latest victim of this mindset is a high school honor student from Texas. A local ABC news affiliate reports: “National Honor Society (NHS) stoles are frequent sight at high school graduation ceremonies around the country, but one Plano Senior High School student is frustrated that he

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  • Yale Students Petition to ‘Abolish’ Major English Poets

    Yale Students Petition to ‘Abolish’ Major English Poets0

    The petition starts out polite enough. “We, undergraduate students in the Yale English Department, write to urge the faculty to reevaluate the undergraduate curriculum.” Then it gets a little chippy. We oppose the continued existence of the Major English Poets sequence as the primary prerequisite for further study. It is unacceptable that a Yale student

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  • The Dangers of ‘Hate Speech’ Rules

    The Dangers of ‘Hate Speech’ Rules0

    Russell Kirk argued that to engage in politics and ideas we must “draw the sword of imagination”. By that he meant, we must imagine all the ways in which a policy or an idea may do either good or harm. Recently, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media giants announced that they will be working with

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  • A Bunch of Burke Quotes

    A Bunch of Burke Quotes0

    Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.   To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.   The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.   The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but

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  • Are Civil Forfeiture Laws Basically Legalized Robbery?

    Are Civil Forfeiture Laws Basically Legalized Robbery?0

    A few years ago, The New Yorker published an article (“Taken”) detailing civil asset forfeiture abuses in America. Sarah Stillman, a staff writer at the magazine and a visiting scholar at NYU, chronicled several examples of citizens stripped of cash, cars, and even homes even though they had not been charged with a crime. The

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  • The Migrant Crisis Presents a Moral Dilemma

    The Migrant Crisis Presents a Moral Dilemma0

    During the three-day Memorial Day weekend, as Americans grilled meat and sipped ice-cold beer and Coca-Cola, more than 700 migrants from Africa died when their unseaworthy boats sank in the Mediterranean Sea on the way to Europe. Although a U.N. official named in the linked article called that “a very intense and exceptional week for

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