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  • Were the Wars Wise? Were They Worth It?

    Were the Wars Wise? Were They Worth It?0

    Through the long Memorial Day weekend, anyone who read the newspapers or watched television could not miss or be unmoved by it: Story after story after story of the fallen, of those who had given the “last full measure of devotion” to their country. Heart-rending is an apt description of those stories; and searing are

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  • Using Diversity for Personal Gain

    Using Diversity for Personal Gain0

    Identity Capitalists: The Powerful Insiders Who Exploit Diversity to Maintain Inequality, by Nancy Leong (Stanford University Press; 240 pp., $28.00). Nancy Leong recounts her chagrin at a friend’s wedding to start her jaundiced polemic, Identity Capitalists. The tipsy bride, gushing with thanks for Leong’s attendance, hugged her before joking indelicately, “I mean if you hadn’t been

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  • Summer Civics Boot Camp for the Whole Family

    Summer Civics Boot Camp for the Whole Family0

    I recently encouraged readers to make summer great again by getting the kids outdoors more and giving them lots of free time, along with trips to various attractions and historical sites close to home. But after reading Wilfred McClay’s online essay “Civic Education, Rightly Understood,” it’s imperative to add one more item to this “make summer great” list: restoring

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  • Free College Doesn’t Go Far Enough for the Left

    Free College Doesn’t Go Far Enough for the Left0

    President Joe Biden’s $302 billion higher education plan seeks to usher in a new era of free community college for all Americans. This is on top of the more than $1 trillion the federal government spent on higher education, as of 2018. According to the left, completely funding two years of every American’s higher education via community

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  • Does Our Diversity Portend Disintegration?

    Does Our Diversity Portend Disintegration?0

    After nine people were shot to death by a public transit worker, who then killed himself in San Jose, the latest mass murder in America, California Governor Gavin Newsom spoke for many on the eve of this Memorial Day weekend. “What the hell is going on in the United States of America? What the hell

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  • America’s Elites Are Terrified of Hillbillies

    America’s Elites Are Terrified of Hillbillies2

    Politics abound with oddities, but perhaps none is greater than the elite’s disproportionate reaction to the Jan. 6 Capitol mayhem as opposed to their response to the largely black rioting following George Floyd’s death. While the black rioting drew tens of thousands of participants, lasted months, and was indisputably violent with billions in property damage,

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  • The Nazi Fixation on Jews Cost Them the War

    The Nazi Fixation on Jews Cost Them the War0

    An Intellectual Takeout reader posted a comment about my recent article, “Debunking the Myths About WWII,” asking why I didn’t “write about the biggest myth of all the myths, the systematic killing of Jew’s [sic!] while fighting a war on four fronts?” While this reader’s syntax is convoluted, his question seems to imply that Germany was too busy fighting

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  • On Reparations: John F. Kennedy vs. Robert F. Kennedy

    On Reparations: John F. Kennedy vs. Robert F. Kennedy0

    When did the civil rights movement go off the rails? The answer is when proponents went from justly demanding equal rights to unjustly demanding equal results. As to exactly when this occurred, that’s more difficult to answer. But consider statements, made five years apart, from the Kennedy brothers, John F. and Robert F. Neither brother

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  • Let’s Make Summer Great Again

    Let’s Make Summer Great Again0

    Summertime. Now there’s a word and a season with some magic. For most adults, summer brings homegrown fruits and vegetables, vacations, and a slower pace of life. For me, summer bestows the special pleasure of drinking coffee early in the morning on my front porch before the day heats up, enjoying the chorus of songbirds

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