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Why High Voter Participation is Overrated 0
- Politics
- August 30, 2018
Elections in free and open societies are often judged on voter participation rates. Pundits and scholars point to cases of poor voter turnout to support claims that our democracy is slowly decaying. This view is flawed. Voters are often uninformed, and higher voter turnout would do nothing to address this problem. Voters are regular
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The Ideology of Statue Smashing 0
- August 29, 2018
Statue smashing is back in the news. One night last week, University of North Carolina students pulled down “Silent Sam,” a bronze monument to students and faculty of the university who fought as Confederate soldiers in the Civil War. The bronze figure is portrayed as static, quiet and without ammunition for his gun—and facing northward—apparently
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Existing Law Didn’t Protect Victims From the Jacksonville Shooter. It Left Them Defenseless.0
- Politics
- August 29, 2018
This past weekend, a competitor at a video game competition in Jacksonville, Florida, allegedly opened fire on fellow gamers, killing two and wounding 10 before taking his own life. It appears that, like so many mass public shooters before him, current gun laws should have been enough to prevent him from possessing firearms. And once
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Adulting May Be Hard at First, but It’s So Worth It 0
- Culture
- August 29, 2018
Millennials, myself included, have a bad habit of complaining that #AdultingIsHard. A simple hashtag search of that on Twitter will get you literally thousands of results, even a few accounts with that claim as their usernames. It’s a trope so ingrained into my generation that it can be used almost anywhere. You finally graduated from
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Catholic Sex Abuse Crisis: PA AG Says He Has Evidence That Vatican Knew 0
- Culture
- August 29, 2018
Can you imagine a worse job than being in law enforcement with the duty of investigating cases of child sex abuse? How that must leave a person permanently scarred in soul and mind – and how that person must burn with a desire for justice. A few weeks ago, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro
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Google and Apple Are Recognizing the Façade of the Education System 0
- Economics
- August 29, 2018
I was at a wedding several weeks ago when I ran into a young man I hadn’t seen for a while. Naturally, I asked what he was up to. Was he finished with high school? College? To my surprise, he stated that he was working for Apple as a software developer. “Wow, that’s great!” I
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