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  • Climbing Mount Durant: A Foray Into Fair-Minded History

    Climbing Mount Durant: A Foray Into Fair-Minded History0

    Shortly before New Year’s Day, 2018, I resolved to read Will and Ariel Durant’s The Story of Civilization, that eleven-volume literary Mount Everest that weighs more than 30 pounds and runs to nearly 10,000 pages. Sticking to a New Year’s resolution or a Lenten vow is not my strong suit. Ten years ago, one of my

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  • Car Seats as Contraceptives

    Car Seats as Contraceptives0

    Seat belts save lives. Child safety seats save lives. These statements seem blindingly obvious. But everything has a cost. Two American economists recently studied the social effects of mandating child safety seats from 1973. They concluded, counterintuitively, that the conventional wisdom is both right and wrong. They estimate that these popular laws prevented only 57

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  • Why COVID Kids May Grow Up To Be Libertarians

    Why COVID Kids May Grow Up To Be Libertarians0

    The Coronavirus crisis hit children as hard as any other segment of the population. All familiar routines were suddenly ripped away from them. Thousands are still doing school online. Many state mask mandates include young children. For children old enough to remember it in the future, the year of Coronavirus, will be a significant event

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  • Amy Coney Barrett and Our Topsy-Turvy Culture

    Amy Coney Barrett and Our Topsy-Turvy Culture0

    In 2017, the media reported that Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus was closing after a run of 146 years. I beg to disagree. The circus moved its three rings, lion tamers, and clowns to Capitol Hill, and the latest act is about to begin. In his essay “Democrats Take Aim At Amy Coney Barrett,”

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  • So This Is What It Has Come To

    So This Is What It Has Come To0

    For years after my wife died and I’d moved into an Asheville apartment with my youngest son, I’d rent a house for a week every summer at the North Carolina shore. My children, their spouses, and a growing platoon of grandchildren all came for a special time, a gathering of the clan. Although circumstances have

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  • People and… Other People, Please Fasten Your Seatbelts

    People and… Other People, Please Fasten Your Seatbelts0

    “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard Japan Airlines Flight 062 bound for Los Angeles…” Those first three words will no longer be uttered, for Japan Airlines just announced it would retire this gendered language when communicating in English. “We aspire to be a company where we can create a positive atmosphere and treat everyone, including our

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