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  • Boy Scouts Learn Just How Fickle Women Can Be

    Boy Scouts Learn Just How Fickle Women Can Be0

    • November 7, 2018

    It happened. The Girl Scouts are finally suing their male counterparts after the latter decided to open its doors to scouts of both sexes a little over a year ago. Officially, the lawsuit centers on trademark issues. With the Boy Scouts rebranding to “Scouts BSA” and welcoming females into their ranks, the Girl Scouts feel

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  • 3 Ways to Make the Post-Election World Better

    3 Ways to Make the Post-Election World Better0

    I scanned my sample ballot. The options were less than inspiring. “Surely,” I thought, “there is a better way than this.” Fortunately, there is. Voting isn’t the only way to effect social change—indeed, it isn’t necessarily a very good one given what we know about voter irrationality and the like. Here are three complements to

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  • What is Neoliberalism?

    What is Neoliberalism?1

    Neoliberalism is one of those concepts that changes meaning depending on whom you ask. Whereas the intellectual opponents of capitalism use it to refer to the political and economic system that emerged in the 1980s and continues to be hegemonic today, classical liberals see it as a vague and empty concept that adds nothing to

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  • Remembering Jim Jones and the Socialist Ideals He Held

    Remembering Jim Jones and the Socialist Ideals He Held0

    Nov. 18 will mark 40 years since nearly 1,000 Americans—a majority of them African American—perished in a mass suicide/murder in the Jonestown compound in the jungles of Guyana. Many misconceptions surround this horror, but a new account dispels some common myths. Cult leader Jim Jones is often portrayed as having been a normal fundamentalist Christian

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  • Jordan Peterson Made His Own Political Ad for Dems

    Jordan Peterson Made His Own Political Ad for Dems0

    • November 6, 2018

    Jordan Peterson has become something of a household name in the last several years. His strong stance on free speech, his support of well-reasoned civil discourse, and his gentle but hard-hitting talks on the basics of life has endeared himself to many young millennials. Above all, Peterson’s new book, 12 Rules for Life, is a monument

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  • D.C. Bureaucrats Are Trying to Make Parents Get a License to Let Children Play Together

    D.C. Bureaucrats Are Trying to Make Parents Get a License to Let Children Play Together0

    Let’s say you and some of your friends decide to gather your young children together a couple of days a week for a few hours of free play. Maybe you switch off who leads the gaggle of kids each week, allowing for some shared free time and flexibility. Sounds like a great arrangement for all,

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  • A Democratic Congress Could Be a Perfect Foil for Trump

    A Democratic Congress Could Be a Perfect Foil for Trump0

    Did former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg just take a page out of the playbook of Senator Ed Muskie from half a century ago? In his first off-year election in 1970, President Richard Nixon ran a tough attack campaign to hold the 52 House seats the GOP had added in ’66 and ’68, and to

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  • The Sad Death of ‘All Politics is Local’

    The Sad Death of ‘All Politics is Local’0

    Even before Justice Anthony Kennedy’s blockbuster announcement that he would be retiring from the Supreme Court, it looked like the 2018 midterms would probably serve a nationalized referendum on Donald Trump. Against the backdrop of the migrant child-detention facilities controversy earlier this summer, and the contentious process to replace Kennedy with Brett Kavanaugh, the “Second

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  • The F-Bomb and the Age of Public Crudity

    The F-Bomb and the Age of Public Crudity4

    Let’s start with a question: Is anyone other than your correspondent sick of the public use of the “F-word”? Hollywood actors, celebrities, politicians, commentators, bloggers and those who comment on blogs sling the word around like sailors on shore leave. (That simile is probably unfair to sailors.) When I am scouting out the news online every

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