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The War of All Men Against All Men 0
- Culture
- September 22, 2020
Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture typically features a column called “What the Editors Are Reading.” In September’s issue, corresponding editor William Murchison looks at journalist Walter Lippmann’s Essays in the Public Philosophy, first published in 1955. There Lippmann wrote, “If what is good, what is right, what is true, is only what the individual ‘chooses’ to
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The School System Has a Prolonged Childhood Problem 0
- Education
- September 22, 2020
There’s a secret that homeschool families have known for years but which is just now leaking to the general public. Hints of this secret rear their heads in articles spotlighting families who never thought they would homeschool but are finding they love it. Hints also show up in polls asking parents how long their children
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Can Trump and McConnell Fill a Supreme Court Seat in Six Weeks?0
- Politics
- September 21, 2020
United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Sept. 18, thrusting the acrimonious struggle for control of the Supreme Court into public view. President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have already vowed to nominate and confirm a replacement for the 87-year-old justice and women’s rights icon. This contradicts the justification the
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Black Lives Matter Linked to 91% of Riots Over Three Months 0
- Culture
- September 21, 2020
The Black Lives Matter movement is linked to more than 9 in 10 riots across the country, according to a recent study. The U.S. experienced 637 riots between May 26 and Sept. 12, and 91 percent of those riots were linked to the Black Lives Matter movement, according to the US Crisis Monitor, a joint
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Edward Snowden Deserves a Pardon 0
- International
- September 21, 2020
The global spotlight was cast upon Edward Snowden in 2013 after he blew the whistle on the National Security Agency’s (NSA) warrantless domestic surveillance programs. Working with The Guardian and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, Snowden famously (or infamously, depending on one’s point of view) revealed that the NSA was illegally gathering information on tens
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America Suffers Under the Iron Law of Bureaucracy 0
- Literature
- September 21, 2020
America is entangled in a net of its government’s own making, one which blocks innovation, tramples individual rights, and costs taxpayers billions of dollars. This cursed net goes by one name: bureaucracy. At the beginning of the 19th century, the U.S. federal government had just five departments: State, Treasury, War, Navy, and Post Office, the last
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