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  • ‘I Want You to Panic,’ Said Greta, and Panic They Did

    ‘I Want You to Panic,’ Said Greta, and Panic They Did0

    “There is no more any prophet,” is the bitter lament of the Psalmist in the Babylonian Exile. We are more fortunate. Sixteen-year-old Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg has been out-Jeremiah-ing Jeremiah as she criss-crosses Europe lecturing about the imminent catastrophe of climate change. Here’s how she excoriated “the people and prophets and priests” at the World Economic Forum in

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  • Olympe de Gouges, Heroine of the French Revolution

    Olympe de Gouges, Heroine of the French Revolution0

    Despite the tendency of French historians to depict the events of 1789-1799 in a more favorable light than they deserve, heroes of the ghastly French Revolution are few in number. Hundreds of thousands of people perished in a decade-long spasm of violence, tyranny, hyperinflation, and war – with precious little to show for it. Britain’s Glorious

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  • Happy Birthday, Donald Trump… and Che Guevara

    Happy Birthday, Donald Trump… and Che Guevara0

    Ironically, Donald Trump, the capitalist, and Che Guevara, the communist, share the same birthday. President Trump turns 73 on June 14th, while Guevara would have been 92.   Most Americans are familiar with Trump’s life, but beyond the commonly seen t-shirt logo, less is known about Guevara.   Born in 1928 to a middle class

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  • Divorced Dads Often Dissed by School

    Divorced Dads Often Dissed by School0

    By the time Father’s Day takes place, the school year is usually over. In many ways, that’s an apt metaphor for how divorced fathers – or fathers who don’t live with their children – get treated by their children’s schools. That is, they’re often simply not seen as part of what takes place at school.

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  • As Great as a Mom May Be, Kids Still Need Their Dads

    As Great as a Mom May Be, Kids Still Need Their Dads1

    “Smokin’ Joe,” a biography of late heavyweight boxing champion and 3-time Muhammad Ali foil Joe Frazier, was recently reviewed by Gordon Marion in The Wall Street Journal. Among the notable details is the fact that five different women gave birth to Frazier’s eleven kids. This occurrence is not uncommon among celebrities. Muhammad Ali, actor and

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  • ‘Socialist’ Nordic Countries Are Actually Moving Toward Private Health Care

    ‘Socialist’ Nordic Countries Are Actually Moving Toward Private Health Care0

    Rising support for socialism in the United States comes at a time when politicians like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., promise a great many “free” services, to be provided or guaranteed by the government. Supporters often point to nations with large social programs, such as Canada, the United Kingdom, and the Scandinavian states, particularly when it

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  • Twelve Quotes from Leo Tolstoy on Truth, Violence, and Government

    Twelve Quotes from Leo Tolstoy on Truth, Violence, and Government0

    Lev Nikolayevitch Tolstoy (1828- 1910), more commonly known as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer and philosopher. Tolstoy was born on a small family estate in Tula, Russia, an industrial city about 100 miles south of Moscow. The fourth of five children, Tolstoy studied law and languages at Kazan University, but he was a poor

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  • The Seven Worst Ideas for Regulation This Century

    The Seven Worst Ideas for Regulation This Century0

    Many good things have happened both in the United States and worldwide this century. In the U.S., we have the lowest unemployment rate in half a century. Worldwide prosperity is growing so fast that the rate of extreme poverty fell by half between 1990 and 2015, five years ahead of the World Bank’s optimistic goal.

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  • The NYT: More Biased Than They Care to Admit?

    The NYT: More Biased Than They Care to Admit?0

    Early last week, Alex Tabarrok shared some findings about The New York Times and its reporting. “Many trends develop over decades but I’ve never seen change so rapid as the breathtaking success of what one might call social justice concerns,” he writes. To illustrate this point, Tabarrok offers some fascinating graphs from Zach Goldberg and

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