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  • A Pandemic Gap Year Is a Smart Move for Students

    A Pandemic Gap Year Is a Smart Move for Students0

    With many colleges and universities still deciding when to re-open their campuses after they were shuttered due to COVID-19, many high school seniors are thinking about taking a gap year. Putting off college during the pandemic might enable them to get the on-campus experience they desire in 2021 instead of going to school remotely this

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  • What Sweden Teaches About Pandemic Economics

    What Sweden Teaches About Pandemic Economics0

    Sweden’s unique policy approach in this pandemic has been described as “freewheeling” in international news media, but it would be more accurate to call it balanced. Johan Giesecke, a world-renowned epidemiologist and advisor to the Swedish Government, calls it “evidence-based.” The Swedish Public Health Agency early decided against lockdowns and quarantining the population. Most people

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  • The ACLU Loses Its Way

    The ACLU Loses Its Way0

    The American Civil Liberties Union used to be a great institution. Founded in January 1920, the ACLU sought to become, in its own words, “the nation’s premier defender of the rights enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.” Over the decades, the organization fought for civil liberties even when no one else would. The ACLU fought against

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  • Parents Need to Learn to Live With Their Children

    Parents Need to Learn to Live With Their Children0

    Coronavirus has brought hardship and suffering to countless Americans. But for some parents, the worst part of this whole crisis is having to spend time with their own children. At least that’s what you would think after reading a New York Post article titled “Can parents survive months of hell as the coronavirus cancels summer camps?” Apparently,

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  • Harvard’s Unjust Crusade Against Homeschooling Continues

    Harvard’s Unjust Crusade Against Homeschooling Continues0

    Harvard University publications continue to present a skewed perspective of homeschooling, spotlighting Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Bartholet’s call for a “presumptive ban” on homeschooling while failing to provide an accurate picture of American homeschooling. In addition to the recent Harvard Magazine article on “The Risks of Homeschooling,” both the Harvard Crimson and the Harvard

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  • Death and Taxes: The Motivation Behind Selective Reopening

    Death and Taxes: The Motivation Behind Selective Reopening0

    America is slowly beginning to reopen, with different states running the course at varying speeds. While the Wisconsin Supreme Court recently repealed state-wide regulations instantaneously, most states do not have the benefit of such decisive action, and are instead suffering through phases arbitrarily decided by state and local governments or executive fiat. In most of America, liquor

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  • The 2006 Origins of the Lockdown Idea

    The 2006 Origins of the Lockdown Idea0

    Now begins the grand effort, on display in thousands of articles and news broadcasts daily, somehow to normalize the lockdown and all its destruction of the last two months. We didn’t lock down almost the entire country in 1968/69, 1957, or 1949-1952, or even during 1918. But in a terrifying few days in March 2020,

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  • NY Admits to Intentionally Undercounting COVID Nursing Home Deaths

    NY Admits to Intentionally Undercounting COVID Nursing Home Deaths0

    On May 7, I wrote about New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s controversial policy of prohibiting eldercare facilities from screening recently discharged hospital patients for COVID-19. The order, passed by New York’s Department of Health on March 25, stated: “No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the [nursing home] solely based on a confirmed

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  • My Egg Donor Went to Harvard. Did Yours?

    My Egg Donor Went to Harvard. Did Yours?0

    A feature in the Harvard Crimson, the university’s undergraduate newspaper, gives a fascinating anecdotal picture of the sperm and egg donation industry on the fringes of Ivy League campuses. Parents who want smart kids. It opens with an interview with a 41-year-old Vancouver woman, Shannon Copeland, who was unable to have a child in her

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