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If You Want Diversity, Make Homeschooling Permanent 0
- Education
- July 9, 2020
Suddenly all of America is homeschooling. I could never have imagined it. The whole homeschooling community now “looks like America.” What most people fail to understand, however, is that the homeschooling community always did. On a beautiful June morning when my one and only child graduated from high school, I was struck yet again by
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Cancel Culture: Time to Get Your Big Boy Pants On 0
- Culture
- July 9, 2020
It’s cool to cancel. At least, that’s the message sent via the ever-escalating number of individuals ostracized for expressing opinions contrary to political correctness, no matter how factual those opinions appear to be. Concern over this cancelling preference, however, is no longer the sole domain of those on the right of the political aisle. Prominent
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Three Things I Noticed Coming Home to America After Living Abroad 0
- Culture
- July 8, 2020
When you live abroad, the picture you get of America is pretty depressing. It seems like the country is falling apart. I recently returned to America for the first time in nearly two years. Although a U.S. citizen, I have been living abroad since 2012. Flying internationally during a pandemic was never my plan, but
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Our Ignorance of the Past Condemns Us to Perpetual Childhood 0
- History
- July 8, 2020
Zebulon Vance, governor of North Carolina during the Civil War, attained a pardon from the United States government for siding with the Confederacy and became a Senator. His colleagues in Congress enjoyed the company of this witty, earthy man, and a group of them invited Vance to visit them in New England. At one get-together,
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Dismantling America Without a Replacement 0
- Economics
- July 8, 2020
Calls to dismantle this group or that institution have become the topic du jour in American politics. It started with police departments and the criminal justice system, then it spread to museums, and now one Democratic congresswoman is raising the bar on a logarithmic scale. In a Tuesday press conference devoted to discussing America’s alleged systemic racism, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, D-MN,
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Back to School? ‘No Thanks’ Say Millions of New Homeschoolers 0
- Education
- July 8, 2020
Next month marks the beginning of the 2020/2021 academic year in several U.S. states, and pressure is mounting to reopen schools even as the COVID-19 pandemic persists. Florida, for example, is now considered the nation’s No. 1 hot spot for the virus; yet on Monday, the state’s education commissioner issued an executive order mandating that
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All-Mail Voting Threatens Election Security, Study Finds 0
- Politics
- July 8, 2020
Mandatory voting by mail would undermine election security and endanger Americans’ right to have their votes counted, according to a report released Tuesday by the Honest Elections Project, a voter integrity group. The report comes on the heels of a vote-by-mail scandal in Paterson, New Jersey, where 1 in 5 votes were disqualified. Liberal politicians
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A Reign of Error 0
- Culture
- July 8, 2020
At the end of The Unheavenly City: The Nature and the Future of Our Urban Crisis (1968), Edward Banfield presents a prospect regarding race relations that seems to have been fulfilled since his tumultuous years and ours: a reign of error. Let me set the stage. America had become the wealthiest nation in the history
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Will Economics Fall to Political Correctness?0
- Culture
- July 7, 2020
The intense pressure to politicize every aspect of academia will not spare economics, and why would it? A society willing to topple statues is hardly one to worry about pulling down a body of knowledge, especially one skillfully characterized by the Left as a political program rather than an actual social science. Keep in mind
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