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Can Federalism Stop a New Civil War?3
Violence hangs over the 2024 election. Well before the botched assassination of President Trump, half of the country already expected to see a civil war within the next few years. Riots have become commonplace—as have outbursts of the oldest form of hate. But in a sense, none of this is surprising. It is the natural
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Friday Comic: Between Two Worlds0
- Entertainment
- September 6, 2024
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Why We Shouldn’t Abandon Our Institutions3
I recently was invited to attend an event hosted by my alma mater—a college that is outspokenly conservative and so generally attracts young conservatives and libertarians—in order to speak to incoming college freshmen about their transition into higher education. While sharing my experience about how my liberal arts education set me up for professional success
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This Book Explains Every Political Argument3
One of the curious things about political opinions is how often the same people line up on opposite sides of different issues. The issues themselves may have no intrinsic connection with each other. They may range from military spending to drug laws to monetary policy to education. Yet the same familiar faces can be found
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Why Aren’t Governments Tackling the Epidemic of Sexual Abuse in America’s Public Schools?0
This week the Washington Post ran a long feature about a school police officer in South Carolina who has been accused of several sexual assaults on high school girls. It turns out that more than 200 police officers have been charged with child sexual abuse between 2005 and 2022. These officers are patrolling schools to prevent mass
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Why Don’t Women Dress Traditionally?14
I wrote an article this past year detailing my experience of wearing exclusively dresses and skirts, due to symptoms of my third pregnancy. I am now on the other side of this experience—I delivered my third son and am healing very well postpartum. To my own surprise, I find I have not gone back to
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You Need to Read Hayek2
He was one of those people who fit Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’ definition of a great thinker with great impact on the world. The hallmark of such a thinker is not personal notoriety but the fact that ‘a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten, men who never heard of him will be moving
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15 Books All Men and Boys Should Read13
- Literature, Featured
- September 3, 2024
Fostering the love of good literature is one of the greatest gifts we can pass on to others and one of the best gifts my parents and uncles gave me. In the modern and digital age of instant gratification where we can easily waste hours scrolling YouTube shorts, TikToks, and reels, the idea of reading
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The Tyranny of Rationalism and Michael Oakeshott1
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy
- September 3, 2024
Michael Oakeshott was one of the most important philosophers of the 1900s, but perhaps because he was an Englishman, his work is not very well known in America. That’s a shame. By tracing the deep roots of modern political thought, Oakeshott laid bare the dangers of rationalism—and predicted the divisive politics we see today. Oakeshott
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