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Is a Lack of Hands-on Work Making Us Angry?0
- Culture
- August 25, 2017
I recently stumbled upon an interesting tidbit out of Green Bay. According to local news station WBAY, a number of inmates at a nearby prison have taken up a new hobby: knitting. I initially raised my eyebrows over this piece of information, but then I looked into the issue more closely. The inmates’ knitting efforts
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Free Speech is More Important than Bruised Feelings 0
- Culture
- August 24, 2017
The first time I felt threatened by someone else’s free speech, I was a freshman in college. My college was plagued by a young man who would stand outside the library and use the word of God to belittle and harass students, especially young women. Once every few months, this man would show up to
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Douglas Murray and ‘The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam’0
- Culture
- August 24, 2017
That Americans are a very lucky people was long ago recognized by a German Chancellor. That would be Otto von Bismarck, who is alleged to have muttered more than once that “God takes care of drunks, little children, and the United States of America.” Well, God is apparently still at it, whether we realize it
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Don’t Kill the Penny 0
- Culture
- August 24, 2017
Governments have long waged a war on cash in an attempt to curb terrorism and tax evasion. Their focus has typically been on eliminating large denominations, like Europe’s €500 bill or India’s 1,000 rupee note. Two U.S. lawmakers have a much smaller target in mind: the lowly penny, perhaps most commonly found in jars and
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To Be A Happy Person, Understand Marginal Utility 0
- Economics
- August 24, 2017
I’m at dinner and the hostess serves me pie for dessert. I gobble it up. Then the hostess says, “Would you like another piece?” I politely decline. In her head, she is thinking “he hates my pie,” but this is totally wrong. I love her pie, especially the first piece. But the second piece has
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Scottish NYU Student: U.S. Universities ‘Stifling’ and ‘Dangerously Insular’0
- Education
- August 24, 2017
In a recent article for The Spectator, New York University journalism major Madeleine Kearns wrote about her first year at a U.S. university. The experience she describes does not sound very positive. Kearns, who was born in Glasgow, Scotland describes an environment that would have looked like a parody of a university setting a generation
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