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  • No, the Electoral College Is Not ‘Affirmative Action’ for Rural Voters

    No, the Electoral College Is Not ‘Affirmative Action’ for Rural Voters0

    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez loves to hate on the Electoral College. Once again, she has the nation up in arms about America’s unique presidential election system. The Electoral College, the New York Democrat said on Instagram last week, is a “scam” that “effectively weighs white voters over voters of color.” Then on Friday afternoon, she doubled

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  • Lies, Bias, and Twisted Facts: MSNBC and Media Bias

    Lies, Bias, and Twisted Facts: MSNBC and Media Bias0

    Over my decades as a writer, I’ve seen the two faces of the media. This past April, an editor from The Epoch Times (ET) sent me an email telling me she had enjoyed my articles on Intellectual Takeout and wondered if I might talk to her about writing for ET. When we spoke by phone,

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  • How to Make the Thrill of Love Return in Marriage

    How to Make the Thrill of Love Return in Marriage0

    Social media causes a lot of problems. We all use it. Yet we all love to hate it. Now it’s causing yet another unforeseen problem, The Wall Street Journal reports, namely in the realm of divorce. We’ve all seen a couple’s blossoming love in images shared on social media. But wait a few years, add

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  • Why I No Longer Support Government Run Healthcare

    Why I No Longer Support Government Run Healthcare0

    In my medical training, a fellow physician tried to convince me that my liberal leanings on health care were misguided. While I firmly believed that the government had an important role in providing access to medical care – particularly to the underserved – my colleague argued that the government’s role in, well, anything, should be practically nonexistent. I remained

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  • Why America Shouldn’t Be Too Concerned About Venezuela

    Why America Shouldn’t Be Too Concerned About Venezuela0

    Perhaps Karl Marx’s greatest (and most quoted) aphorism is: “History repeats itself; once as tragedy, the second time as farce.” Nowhere is the truth of that clearer than in the case of Venezuela. When the late Hugo Chavez was elected to the presidency there in 1998, everybody in Washington imagined that this was a replay

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  • What Happened to the Epstein Story?

    What Happened to the Epstein Story?0

    International man of mystery and all-around dirtbag, Jeffrey Epstein, died just over two weeks ago at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, a high-security federal detention center that rivals Guantanamo Bay in its unpleasantness. The institution that safely housed infamous criminals like El Chapo and various members of al-Qaeda barely held on to Jeffrey Epstein for a

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  • Trump: Somebody Had to Confront China

    Trump: Somebody Had to Confront China0

    Let’s pay a visit to Little China in Front Royal, Virginia. I’m not talking about China City Buffet, that wonderful restaurant where I used to take my grandkids for their birthdays. Nor do I mean the nearby Virginia International Academy, which despite its name caters only to Chinese students transitioning into American universities. I do

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  • The Difference Between Classical and Traditional Education

    The Difference Between Classical and Traditional Education6

    Several years ago I got into a conversation about classical education in which my conversation partner asked, “Isn’t that the kind of education that all those overachieving homeschoolers are into?” I had to laugh. Yes, classical education has that reputation. But the high-achieving nature of classical education hasn’t deterred interest. In fact, classical curricula are proliferating

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  • The Horrors of Modern Public Opinion

    The Horrors of Modern Public Opinion0

    In a previous essay at The Imaginative Conservative, I looked at Christopher Dawson’s critical fear that the United States and the United Kingdom had become fascistic in their respective quests to fight fascism. Dawson, of course, was not alone in expressing such a belief. C.S. Lewis had claimed the same in his profound essay, Abolition of Man (1943), and his

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