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  • America Is a ‘Bananas’ Republic

    America Is a ‘Bananas’ Republic0

    Every morning, I visit four or five of my favorite news sites to see whether Venusians have invaded planet earth, the vampires are under control, Trump Derangement Syndrome is alive and well, and the sun is still shining. This morning there was no mention of Venusians or vampires, the derangement rages on, and the sun

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  • The Myth of Earth’s Overpopulation Crisis

    The Myth of Earth’s Overpopulation Crisis0

    Shortly after my wife graduated from college, she joined Zero Population Growth. Looking back, she tells me it was an emotional reaction fueled by reading Paul Ehrlich’s apocalyptic claims. In his book, The Population Bomb, Ehrlich wrote: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will

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  • Renewing Reason in Our Local Communities

    Renewing Reason in Our Local Communities0

    Nothing puts the struggles of one’s own life in perspective better than watching your peers succumb to despair. Until the turn of the twenty-first century, members of Generation X seemed to have grown beyond their characteristic “latchkey kid” childhoods. Yet today, many of these fellow citizens of ours, now middle-aged, are opioid addicts and victims

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  • Love to Read? Time to Hire a Book Curator.

    Love to Read? Time to Hire a Book Curator.0

    “A home without books is a body without soul.” This Pinterest-ready quote is attributed – somewhat dubiously – to ancient Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero. Today, some celebrities are taking it to heart. The rich and famous are lining up to engage the services of Thatcher Wine (yes, that’s really his name). He’s a “book

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  • Government Won’t Save Us From “Woke” Corporations

    Government Won’t Save Us From “Woke” Corporations0

    From the shoes you wear to the ice cream you eat, politics has found a way to sneak into some of the most mundane aspects of our lives. The new trend of “Woke Capital,” where firms are actively promoting social justice causes, has had many free-marketers scratching their heads at how corporate America has hopped

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  • ‘Get Your Guns, Boys! They’re Robbing the Bank!’

    ‘Get Your Guns, Boys! They’re Robbing the Bank!’0

    If you haven’t heard, the city of San Francisco is setting out to rid itself of terrorism. Domestic terrorism, that is. “Great!” many of us would say. “A city should work hard to keep its citizens safe.” The trouble is, San Francisco has an interesting definition of what constitutes a domestic terrorist. In a recent

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  • Why Transhumanists’ Quest for Earthly Immortality is Misguided

    Why Transhumanists’ Quest for Earthly Immortality is Misguided0

    For all the reports on the sordid life of Jeffrey Epstein, little has been written about his interest in transhumanism. Followers of the transhumanist movement believe humans will achieve super-longevity, and, perhaps one day, live forever. Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google and the author of books predicting a coming technological “singularity,” is perhaps the most prominent transhumanist.

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  • What Public Schools Get Wrong About Diversity

    What Public Schools Get Wrong About Diversity0

    Diversity. It’s one of the buzzwords of this generation. Forget sameness, everyone must be different, while at the same time inclusive. It’s that simple. It sounds like utopia, doesn’t it? A utopia promoted by institutions of all stripes, not the least of which are America’s public schools. But what if our promotion of diversity is

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  • Karl Marx: Intellectual Father of the 1619 Project?

    Karl Marx: Intellectual Father of the 1619 Project?0

    The New York Times’ 1619 Project seeks to establish the moment the first slave ship landed in Virginia as “a new point of origin for our national story,” because “nearly everything that has made America exceptional grew out of slavery.” The series – which attempts to link American prosperity, our economic system, even our lack of a single-payer healthcare system to slavery – can count

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