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  • What the Homeschooling Surge Reveals About Compulsory Education

    What the Homeschooling Surge Reveals About Compulsory Education0

    My sixth-grade visit to the Pavek Museum of broadcasting was the most memorable field trip of elementary school. The live radio broadcast my fellow students and I produced while there was probably why. As part of the broadcast, several students were instructed to write a news bulletin. The gist of it? The governor of Minnesota

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  • Virtue Signaling of Plastic Bag Ban Ends Quickly in a Pandemic

    Virtue Signaling of Plastic Bag Ban Ends Quickly in a Pandemic0

    Mindless virtue signaling doesn’t fare well in a real crisis. As the nation and the world confronts a deadly pandemic, and citizens, businesses, and governments do all they can to tamp down the spread of the coronavirus, some useless measures instituted in less turbulent times will go by the wayside. One of these useless measures

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  • Revisiting the ‘Pleasantville’ of My Childhood

    Revisiting the ‘Pleasantville’ of My Childhood2

    I was recently reminded of the film “Pleasantville,” which was released in 1998 and, according to Netflix, became one of year’s most popular movies. Although “Pleasantville” features lustrous Hollywood stars Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, Jeff Daniels, and William Macy, it would be inaccurate to characterize this film as something meant simply to entertain. Instead, the

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  • A Real Crisis Yields Real Politics

    A Real Crisis Yields Real Politics0

    So much of the news cycle and the telegraphed concerns of our commentariat are completely fake. Fake crises like “climate change,” a phone call with the leader of Ukraine, or whether someone used the wrong pronouns tend to dominate the news cycle. The recent Democratic presidential primary is a good example. At one point, the

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  • A Litany of Useless Laws Have Been Exposed By the Coronavirus

    A Litany of Useless Laws Have Been Exposed By the Coronavirus0

    From the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, state and local governments responded in various ways from issuing emergency orders – citywide shutdowns to school closures and beyond – but it’s the suspension of various laws and regulations that is exposing the unnecessary regulatory web that burdens businesses. As often happens during

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  • The Staggering Collapse of U.S. Intelligence on the Coronavirus

    The Staggering Collapse of U.S. Intelligence on the Coronavirus0

    The coronavirus pandemic has impacted the United States unlike any other event in recent history, proving to be far more disruptive to American society, and far most damaging to the U.S. economy, than even the events of 9/11. The U.S. response is something President Trump has likened to a “war,” going so far as to

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  • The Coronavirus Revival of the Stay-at-Home Mom

    The Coronavirus Revival of the Stay-at-Home Mom0

    A fascinating thing about this time in history is how it’s challenging many of our long-held beliefs and practices. Take the conversation my sister relayed to me the other day. While out for a walk, she stopped to talk with a neighbor – from an appropriate distance, of course – and asked how she was

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  • J.M. Keynes’ Dreams of a Eugenic Future

    J.M. Keynes’ Dreams of a Eugenic Future0

    Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren ranks among the best-known contributions in the economic writings of John Maynard Keynes. First prepared as a lecture for schoolchildren in 1928, the article predicted a coming age of leisure and economic abundance in the not-too-distant future. The economist’s century-long prophecy of a 15-hour work week, attained through scientific ordering

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  • Illegal Border Crossings Drop by Half Under Coronavirus Shutdown

    Illegal Border Crossings Drop by Half Under Coronavirus Shutdown0

    Since the Trump administration ordered a shutdown of the U.S.-Mexico border, government officials are reporting a roughly 50 percent drop in illegal alien apprehensions. Under orders from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Trump administration on Friday declared a lockdown of the southern and northern borders, permitting only the flow of “essential” travel.

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