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Our Ignorance of the Past Condemns Us to Perpetual Childhood0
- 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 Replacement0
- 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 Homeschoolers0
- 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 Finds0
- 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 Error0
- 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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Supreme Court’s ‘Faithless Electors’ Decision Safeguards Electoral College0
- History
- July 7, 2020
In a decision issued Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that states can punish presidential electors who break their pledge to support the presidential candidate preferred by the citizens of their states. The ruling affirms the Electoral College as an important part of our constitutional structure – one that balances popular sovereignty with the benefits of
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My Fourth of July: Hope for America0
- Culture
- July 7, 2020
My Fourth of July began when I placed six small American flags at intervals along the sidewalk of the front porch of my daughter’s house. As I pushed the flagpoles into the grass, I thought of my deceased wife, who had purchased these and other American flags, and who for years had decorated the lawn
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Does Fighting for Freedom Save Lives or Lose Them?0
- Philosophy
- July 7, 2020
Over the weekend, while keeping one eye on the weeds in my garden and the other on the news, I noticed an interesting trend: the media is slowly backing away from its dire coronavirus predictions. My first indication of this came via The New York Times. Reporter Katherine J. Wu, who holds a Ph.D in
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