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How Venezuelans Can Recover from the Sickness of Socialism0
- Economics
- February 8, 2019
And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works – French economist and statesman Frédéric Bastiat, 1850. Venezuela’s socialist
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Do We Need More Screen-Free Zones?0
- Culture
- February 8, 2019
It’s Friday afternoon, and I’m standing near the polar bear enclosure at the local zoo. A few feet away from me, a thousand-pound animal is playing with an exercise ball. It’s amusing. He looks like a massively oversized toddler trying to palm a basketball. The zoo is quiet today, so I’ve got the observation window
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Why Bad Arguments Are So Persuasive0
- Culture
- February 7, 2019
A few years ago, two of my younger siblings were helping in the kitchen when my little brother decided to take my little sister’s snack. When asked why he would do such a thing, he looked at my mom and explained, as though it should have been obvious, that he took her snack because she
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Homeschoolers: Guilty Until Proven Innocent?0
- Culture
- February 7, 2019
My eight-year-old daughter and I recently read about the Salem witch trials. She had heard about Salem from a friend who visited the nearby town during its popular Halloween festivities, and she was curious about the witches. We went to the library to get some books on the topic of how 20 innocent people were
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Has the IVF Industry Been Lying to Millennials?0
- Culture
- February 7, 2019
Recently the Sydney Morning Herald reported that a technique known as “endometrial scratching”, used in fertility clinics, has been found to be useless. A three-year study carried out in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, showed that the IVF add-on, costing up to $700 in Australia, did nothing to boost the chances of falling pregnant through in vitro fertilisation. Too
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Democrats Release Green New Deal. Here’s What’s in It.0
- February 7, 2019
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez released a resolution that outlines the “Green New Deal” that’s become a central part of the Democratic agenda. The Green New Deal resolution calls for “10-year national mobilizations” toward a series of goals aimed at fighting global warming, according to a copy of the bill obtained by NPR. A separate fact sheet
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Christopher Hitchens on Why We Desperately Need Free Speech0
- Culture
- February 7, 2019
One sentence. Five restrictions on the power of the government of the United States. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for
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What Might Have Been: Russia’s Missed Opportunity of 19170
- History
- February 6, 2019
The Bolshevik uprising of October 1917 is usually thought to have resulted in the overthrow of the tsarist autocracy, which had ruled the Russian Empire since 1547. This belief has led to a certain idealization of the Russian Revolution. Despite the crimes that were later committed in the USSR in the name of communism, the
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How PC Moralism Cuts Us Off From Our Cultural Heritage0
- Culture
- February 6, 2019
Anyone who has read classic literature knows that there are things in old books that offend our sensibilities. And this isn’t a new phenomenon either. Every generation sees something in the thought and writing of previous generations that it doesn’t like or that it finds offensive. The difference today is not that there are
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