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Research: Nearly Half of Americans Don’t Feel Close to Their Communities2
Are American communities deteriorating? The Pew Research Center recently surveyed people from 24 countries, asking them whether they felt very/somewhat close to people in their country and/or people in their local community. The United States fell dead last when it came to a sense of solidarity with countrymen: Only 66 percent of Americans said that
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What Is the Difference Between Libertarianism and Conservatism?10
Conservatives and libertarians have much in common, but a few fundamental differences divide the two. For instance, both conservatives and libertarians value freedom, but conservatives place a higher emphasis on civilization’s role in ensuring that freedom. Similarly, both libertarians and conservatives believe in rights to life, liberty, and property. But libertarians usually think the American
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How Do We Solve the West’s Fertility Crisis?12
My wife and I recently found out that baby number two is on the way, and we couldn’t be more delighted. Parenting is without doubt the most rewarding adventure we have ever embarked upon. All this being true, the prospect of another baby has made me think long and hard about our financial position over
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The Farm Effect: Why Playing in the Mud Is Good for Your Kids2
I was standing at the sink washing an egg for my breakfast the other day. We’d had rain the day before, and the egg was covered in mud and poop from chickens climbing into the nesting box to lay. Washing eggs is a daily task for me as a homesteader with chickens. This, along with
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Kierkegaard: The Freedom He Discovered in Uncertainty5
- Philosophy, Featured
- August 26, 2024
There is a story about the post–World War II Nazi trials. A Holocaust survivor had broken down when one of his former tormentors entered the courtroom. Later, a reporter, assuming the survivor to be shaken by the Nazi’s presence, asked for a comment. The Holocaust survivor answered that he was not crying because of the
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Do We Have Too Much Information Today?8
Do you ever feel that you have access to too much information? Do you ever feel overwhelmed by opinions, statistics, arguments, and facts? Night and day, we are assaulted by emails, headlines, blog posts, text messages, podcasts, phone calls, radio broadcasts, YouTube videos, TV announcements. Our life is lived out to the rhythm of the
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People Without Meaningful Lives Seek Power Over Others3
- Culture
- August 26, 2024
One of my more memorable exchanges with a student came in a principles of economics class. Part of the assignment for that week was chapters from Matt Ridley’s The Rational Optimist. Ridley compared the living standards of an average worker today with those of The Sun King, Louis XIV, in 1700. Some of my more ahistorical students
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Successful People Don’t Believe in Conspiracies4
It seems impossible to deny that powerful forces are conspiring to suppress basic freedoms and impose top-down control over American society. Intelligence agencies team up with Big Tech to censor information, governments are marking political dissidents as “terror threats,” and presidential candidates are hand-picked by party elites. Looking around, I can’t help but feel that
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In With Teacher Apprenticeships, Out With Colleges of Education0
Two persistent problems beset American schools. First, teachers must leave the classroom and become administrators or counselors to earn above the standard teacher salary. Second, colleges of education can’t prepare new teachers nearly as well as an apprenticeship under a veteran teacher who has consistently demonstrated mastery of the craft. Thankfully, K-12 education can rework how it prepares new teachers and
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