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The Clock Is Ticking: Trillions in Debt With No Solutions 0
- Culture
- October 15, 2019
As the U.S. Debt Clock reveals, our national debt will soon reach an astounding $23 trillion. We show little inclination to rein in spending, cut programs, investigate cost overruns, or reduce the number of federal workers. No, we keep spending money like it will vanish from our wallets regardless, so much so that we are blasé about
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Against ‘Scruffy Hospitality’2
- Family
- October 15, 2019
Our society sends mixed messages about hospitality. On the one hand, thanks to Pinterest and the proliferation of food blogs, we are inundated with photos of fancy dishes and gorgeous table settings in immaculate homes. The subtext hints that this is how true hospitality is practiced. At the same time, there’s a plethora of articles
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Columbus Day Still Needs to Be Defended 0
- Culture
- October 14, 2019
One year ago, I made my debut in The American Conservative describing my alma mater’s efforts to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day, a microcosm of the effort to erase the American nation and replace its history with something more “diverse.” The work of these cultural arsonists has, unfortunately, continued nationwide. Over the past 12 months, New Mexico,
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A New Dark Age: California’s Blackouts Are Self-Inflicted 0
- Culture
- October 14, 2019
California, the richest state in the nation—and one that’s often portrayed as the progressive harbinger of the future for the rest of the country – has been hit with its latest Third World-style disaster. On top of high poverty rates, skyrocketing homelessness, rising crime, and the return of medieval-sounding diseases, the state – specifically, the San Francisco Bay
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Joe Biden: Youth Idol?0
- Culture
- October 14, 2019
Today at Spectator USA I write about Joe Biden’s forgotten status as a fount of youthful genius in “Joe Biden: victim of the cult of youth.” Biden won his first Senate election at the 29, the same age as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and spent the next two decades being extolled for his age and sophistication – before spending the
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The Ugandan Miracle of a Market-Driven Charity 0
- October 14, 2019
In The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, describes the sympathetic nature of human beings in one short, brilliant, sentence: How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he
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