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  • Guns and Schools: Can the Market do Better?

    Guns and Schools: Can the Market do Better?0

    There is no epidemic of gun violence in America; quite the opposite in fact. But last week’s shooting at a high school in Florida was a grim and jarring reminder of deep cultural problems lurking just beneath the veneer of our materially comfortable society. Those problems are beyond the scope of libertarianism per se, but

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  • Tech Exec Doomsday Preppers: Protecting Themselves from the Automation Monster They Created

    Tech Exec Doomsday Preppers: Protecting Themselves from the Automation Monster They Created0

    “Doomsday Preppers,” An American reality series that ran on the National Geographic channel from 2011 to 2014, explored “…the lives of otherwise ordinary Americans who are preparing for the end of the world as we know it.” The movement continues today, with Silicon Valley technology executives among the latest participants in this survivalist world.  

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  • Do You Know Your Latin Abbreviations?

    Do You Know Your Latin Abbreviations?0

            Answers: e.g. = “exempli gratia” (“for the sake of example”) i.e. = “id est” (“that is”) N.B. = “Nota Bene” (“note well”) p.s. = “post scriptum” (“after what has been written”) QED = “Quod Erat Demonstrandum” (“which was needing to be demonstrated”) R.I.P. = “Requiescat in Pace” (“may he rest in

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  • Young People Don’t Know How to Date Anymore. Here’s Why.

    Young People Don’t Know How to Date Anymore. Here’s Why.0

    In a time when dating apps are a dime a dozen and major sporting events dish out condoms by the thousands, it would be easy to think that sex and loving relationships are thriving. But recent data shows that such is not the case. Americans are having less sex and getting married at dramatically lower

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  • Understanding the California Mind

    Understanding the California Mind0

    Nancy Pelosi gave a marathon speech on illegal immigration the other day. But how would she know much about the realities of open borders, given her palatial retreat in Northern California and multi-millionaire lifestyle that allows wealthy progressives like herself to be exempt from the consequences of her own hectoring? In the end, the House

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  • 4 Reasons Congress Doesn’t “Act” on Gun Violence

    4 Reasons Congress Doesn’t “Act” on Gun Violence0

    The recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida, has again created a debate over whether or not the country needs additional gun control laws. Rather than wading into that debate, perhaps we should explore why so little progress is made on this issue. After each of the recent mass shootings or school shootings we have seen

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