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Kristallnacht: Are We Experiencing the Modern Version?0
- Culture
- November 7, 2018
November 9th marks the eightieth anniversary of Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, in Germany. Earlier that month in 1938, a young Jew of Polish descent, Herschel Grynszpan, having learned of his family’s forced expulsion from their home in Hanover, Germany, bought a revolver, entered the German embassy in Paris, and killed Ernst Van Roth,
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A Democratic Congress Could Be a Perfect Foil for Trump 0
- Politics
- November 6, 2018
Did former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg just take a page out of the playbook of Senator Ed Muskie from half a century ago? In his first off-year election in 1970, President Richard Nixon ran a tough attack campaign to hold the 52 House seats the GOP had added in ’66 and ’68, and to
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D.C. Bureaucrats Are Trying to Make Parents Get a License to Let Children Play Together 0
- Culture
- November 6, 2018
Let’s say you and some of your friends decide to gather your young children together a couple of days a week for a few hours of free play. Maybe you switch off who leads the gaggle of kids each week, allowing for some shared free time and flexibility. Sounds like a great arrangement for all,
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Jordan Peterson Made His Own Political Ad for Dems 0
- November 6, 2018
Jordan Peterson has become something of a household name in the last several years. His strong stance on free speech, his support of well-reasoned civil discourse, and his gentle but hard-hitting talks on the basics of life has endeared himself to many young millennials. Above all, Peterson’s new book, 12 Rules for Life, is a monument
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What is Neoliberalism?1
- Economics
- November 6, 2018
Neoliberalism is one of those concepts that changes meaning depending on whom you ask. Whereas the intellectual opponents of capitalism use it to refer to the political and economic system that emerged in the 1980s and continues to be hegemonic today, classical liberals see it as a vague and empty concept that adds nothing to
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Remembering Jim Jones and the Socialist Ideals He Held 0
- Culture
- November 6, 2018
Nov. 18 will mark 40 years since nearly 1,000 Americans—a majority of them African American—perished in a mass suicide/murder in the Jonestown compound in the jungles of Guyana. Many misconceptions surround this horror, but a new account dispels some common myths. Cult leader Jim Jones is often portrayed as having been a normal fundamentalist Christian
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Kristallnacht: Are We Experiencing the Modern Version?0