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  • Socialism May Be Absurd, but It’s No Laughing Matter

    Socialism May Be Absurd, but It’s No Laughing Matter0

    Socialism is no laughing matter, but it’s sometimes difficult to refrain from chuckling at the absurdities of its most devoted adherents. Several videos of a Democratic Socialists of America conference in Atlanta have been making the rounds on social media. In one video, posted on Twitter by Young Americans Against Socialism, an audience member identifying

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  • Mass Shootings Aren’t Growing More Common – and Evidence Contradicts Common Stereotypes About the Killers

    Mass Shootings Aren’t Growing More Common – and Evidence Contradicts Common Stereotypes About the Killers0

    When 22 people were killed in El Paso, Texas, and nine more were killed in Dayton, Ohio, roughly 12 hours later, responses to the tragedy included many of the same myths and stereotypes Americans have grown used to hearing in the wake of a mass shooting. As part of my work as a psychology researcher,

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  • Going to the Chapel? Not Anymore.

    Going to the Chapel? Not Anymore.0

    Wedding planning is consuming the minds of several of my friends. The dress. The caterer. The flowers. The location! When asked about this last essential, one friend gets big eyes, puts on a mysterious voice and says: “We’re doing something really novel. We’re getting married in… A CHURCH!” This response draws laughter, but it’s quite

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  • No, Tariffs Won’t Ruin Christmas

    No, Tariffs Won’t Ruin Christmas0

    President Trump says he will impose a 10 percent tariff on $300 billion worth of Chinese imports beginning September 1. The tariff would affect consumer goods primarily, according to an analysis by Goldman Sachs. Cue the histrionics. The Washington Post laments that these tariffs will ruin America’s “holiday” shopping season. The Post cites a study claiming that the price

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  • Mass Shootings: Fallout From a Culture Where Anything Goes and Nothing Matters

    Mass Shootings: Fallout From a Culture Where Anything Goes and Nothing Matters0

    My editor at Intellectual Takeout, Annie Holmquist, wrote to me the Monday after back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio to ask if I might write a column about these horrific murders. She and some of the staff were discussing the shootings and found themselves asking the following questions: Why are young

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  • Google Is Burying Alternative Health Sites to Protect People from ‘Dangerous’ Medical Advice

    Google Is Burying Alternative Health Sites to Protect People from ‘Dangerous’ Medical Advice0

    In Ray Bradbury’s classic novel Fahrenheit 451, firemen don’t put out fires; they create fires to burn books. The totalitarians claim noble goals for book burning. They want to spare citizens unhappiness caused by having to sort through conflicting theories. Censorship Is Control The real aim of censorship, in Bradbury’s dystopia, is to control the

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  • Breaking Old Habits: Millennials Make the Nun Run

    Breaking Old Habits: Millennials Make the Nun Run0

    I was taken aback at the headlining article on ESPN this weekend. It wasn’t about kneeling football players. Instead, one might say it was about a kneeling basketball player: Shelly Pennefather. Pennefather, a former All-American player for Villanova, turned down a professional basketball career to join the cloistered convent of the Poor Clares. ESPN captured

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  • Baltimore Is a Mess. Here Are 3 Big Issues the City Faces

    Baltimore Is a Mess. Here Are 3 Big Issues the City Faces0

    Baltimore is dysfunctional. This is essentially what President Donald Trump tweeted out in less pleasant terms that became a national story. In a series of tweets, Trump lambasted Rep. Elijah Cummings, D.-Md., and his congressional district in Baltimore, calling it a “dangerous and filthy place.”   Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting

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  • Apocalypse Now: Be Careful What You Wish For

    Apocalypse Now: Be Careful What You Wish For0

    On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima in Japan. Three days later, another American aircraft dropped a bomb on Nagasaki. Six days later, the Japanese government surrendered unconditionally to the United States and her allies. Historians have long debated whether this use of nuclear weapons was

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