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  • Thanks, ‘Avengers: Endgame,’ for Reminding Us Why Inflation Matters

    Thanks, ‘Avengers: Endgame,’ for Reminding Us Why Inflation Matters0

    Marvel recently re-released the final film in its “Avengers” series with extra footage and a post-credit tribute in hopes of breaking the worldwide record for top-grossing movie of all time. So far, the gambit seems to have failed. As of July 2, “Avengers: Endgame” had collected US$2.77 billion in worldwide ticket sales. This is still

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  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: It’s Been a Year, and What a Year It’s Been

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: It’s Been a Year, and What a Year It’s Been0

    On June 26, 2018, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) beat Joseph Crowley for the Democratic nomination in New York’s 14th congressional district. Though only 28 and with little political experience, she went on to win the general election in November, and has been making waves ever since.   Here are seven highlights from her campaign and time in

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  • Three Myths About Prohibition and Why It Actually Worked

    Three Myths About Prohibition and Why It Actually Worked0

    The reputation of Al Capone and the typical American aversion toward big government cloud our understanding of the history of Prohibition. According to an article published last week in Vox, Prohibition worked much better than most people think. A reevaluation of Prohibition is very relevant for our time. Americans across the country are voting to

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  • The Pursuit of Happiness Rightly Understood

    The Pursuit of Happiness Rightly Understood0

    On the day C.S. Lewis died, his last written work was already in press with the Saturday Evening Post. “We have no ‘right to happiness,’” Lewis declared in the essay, by which he meant that we have no moral right to trample the rules of justice to gratify our impulses. Lewis did concede that the idea

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  • Why Didn’t the Founders Abolish Slavery?

    Why Didn’t the Founders Abolish Slavery?1

    Reparations for slavery have reemerged as a hotbed issue in the 2020 election, raising the question of why the Founding Fathers did not abolish slavery when starting their new country. Many of the Founders – including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton – opposed the practice. They denounced slavery in the original draft of the

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  • All Out of Bootstraps

    All Out of Bootstraps0

    Somewhere along the line, the Republican Party earned itself the moniker of the “Stupid Party.” It has become painfully obvious, for example, that most congressional Republicans don’t want to repeal Obamacare. “And if that is the case,” as Byron York wisely asks, “the question is, why are Republicans trying?” Well, for show, naturally; but also, because they

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