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  • The War of All Men Against All Men

    The War of All Men Against All Men0

    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

    The School System Has a Prolonged Childhood Problem0

    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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  • News You Can’t Abuse

    News You Can’t Abuse0

    News sources on the political Left, like The New York Times, claim that climate change is responsible for the fires in the West. Those on the Right, like The Epoch Times, say arsonists lit the matches that set off the tinderboxes left by decades of mistaken environmentalist policies, like bans on commercial logging. The media

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  • It Seems That Millennials Are More Willing to Commit

    It Seems That Millennials Are More Willing to Commit0

    While millennials have been widely hailed as selfish, entitled, unreliable and snowflake-like to say the least (Time magazine once labelled them the “me me me generation”), it turns out they just might be the next generation to want to stay in a job for life and store money under the mattress for a rainy day

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  • The Military’s Secret to Fighting COVID-19

    The Military’s Secret to Fighting COVID-190

    A week or so ago, while driving home from the coffee shop, I heard a newscaster report that the Pentagon had announced a seventh member of the military had died from the COVID-19 virus. I was stunned, certain that this number was wrong. Surely it must be much higher. On arriving home, I hit my

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  • Edward Snowden Deserves a Pardon

    Edward Snowden Deserves a Pardon0

    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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  • Can Trump and McConnell Fill a Supreme Court Seat in Six Weeks?

    Can Trump and McConnell Fill a Supreme Court Seat in Six Weeks?0

    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

    Black Lives Matter Linked to 91% of Riots Over Three Months0

    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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  • America Suffers Under the Iron Law of Bureaucracy

    America Suffers Under the Iron Law of Bureaucracy0

    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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