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  • The Not-So-Great Depression Diet

    The Not-So-Great Depression Diet0

    When E.C. Harwood formed the American Institute for Economic Research 90 years ago, the New Deal was just beginning. The Great Depression, though, was over three years old, and it was a hangry, troublesome toddler. For those with a job, or on a fixed income, the Depression was great, because prices sank a great deal.

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  • How to Survive Life in Our Looney Bin

    How to Survive Life in Our Looney Bin2

    In 1828, utopian socialist Robert Owen is supposed to have remarked to his business associate William Allen, “All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.” For obvious reasons, today we substitute mad or crazy for queer in that quotation, but the meaning remains the same. And despite

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  • Amazon Trades Charity for Ideology

    Amazon Trades Charity for Ideology0

    Eighty-five years ago, Carl Stotz had an epiphany of sorts while he was passing a lazy summer day playing catch with his two nephews and tripped over a lilac bush while chasing a wild pitch. While nursing his wounds he had a flash of brilliance that would forever change the lives of children, families, communities,

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  • Stephen Curry’s Housing Hypocrisy

    Stephen Curry’s Housing Hypocrisy1

    Stephen Curry is quite the guy. Professional athlete, philanthropist, and social justice advocate—is there anything he can’t do? Apparently there is, seeing as how the NBA player has difficulty practicing what he preaches. Curry came under fire this week after it was revealed that he and his wife oppose the construction of multifamily housing near

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  • American Lab Rats

    American Lab Rats0

    In January 1790, President George Washington wrote to London author Catherine Macaulay, “The establishment of our new government seemed to be the last great experiment, for promoting human happiness, by creating a reasonable compact, in civil Society.” Since then, any number of writers have referred to the American experiment—often in terms of politics, as Washington

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  • When Compassion Becomes Coercion

    When Compassion Becomes Coercion5

    The corruption of compassion. It begins with identity groups making appeals to compassion, then progresses to demands for preferential treatment. It ends with the injustice of coerced compassion in the form of special rights, entitlements, and demands for everyone else to promote and endorse the lifestyles and causes of those groups. A recent case in

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  • The Techno-Dystopia of Contemporary Film and Television

    The Techno-Dystopia of Contemporary Film and Television3

    There’s a creative strain that has haunted film, television, and streaming services for the past decade. Though the seedlings of this strain have been around for a long time, it has now become a cornerstone of entertainment, which makes it both compelling and worrisome. I’m referring to techno-dystopianism. The general idea behind techno-dystopianism is using

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  • Our Overlooked Vice: Frivolity

    Our Overlooked Vice: Frivolity2

    Frivolity is killing America. That’s an overstatement, but it’s not too far from the truth. While the neglect of morals, absolute truth, and traditional sex roles is clear from even a cursory glance at society, the slow degradation of the mind often hides in the background. Frivolity is worth considering, if only because it’s so

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  • Friday Comic: The Narrow Door1

    “The Narrow Door.” Credit: OwenComics (store). Twitter: @owenbroadcast. Instagram @owenbroadcast. ITO Save this article to favorites

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