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  • Michael Scott and the NPC Life We Can All Fall Into

    Michael Scott and the NPC Life We Can All Fall Into0

    Continuing the trend of social media purging, Twitter has banned “hundreds of right-wing accounts for posing as soulless, ‘nonplayable’ liberal activists”—otherwise known as NPC accounts. Twitter claimed these accounts violated their rules of “intentionally misleading election-related content.” The term non-player character (NPC) comes from the world of video games. An NPC is a character not controlled by

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  • Men and Women: Should We Just Call the Whole Thing Off?

    Men and Women: Should We Just Call the Whole Thing Off?0

    Marriage is in decline. This fact is by now so familiar to conservatives that they may be tempted to gloss over an interesting shift in the manner of marriage’s decline. Thirty years ago, Americans were getting married but not staying that way. Today divorce rates are down but wedding bells are also in less demand. Growing numbers of

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  • How Dumbed Down Education is Creating a National Security Crisis

    How Dumbed Down Education is Creating a National Security Crisis0

    In Wind Sprints: Shorter Essays, Joseph Epstein, one of America’s great essayists, includes a piece “How I Learned to Love the Draft” in which he offered his reasons for the restoration of compulsory military service. After reading Epstein’s reasons for bringing back the draft—the exposure of young people to contemporaries from all backgrounds, a greater

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  • Caravan Contradictions

    Caravan Contradictions0

    A “caravan”—the euphemism for a current foot-army of more than 10,000 Central Americans—of would-be border crossers has now passed into Mexico. The marchers promise they will continue 1,000 miles and more northward to the U.S. border, despite warnings from President Trump that as unauthorized immigrants they will be turned away. No one has yet explained how,

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  • Why Thomas Merton Renounced Communism: 6 Lessons We Can Learn Today

    Why Thomas Merton Renounced Communism: 6 Lessons We Can Learn Today0

    Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk and one of the most important Catholic writers of the 20th century. He was the author of over 60 books; the best known being The Seven Storey Mountain which is an autobiographical account of his search for faith. Published in 1948, The Seven Storey Mountain is a modern classic,

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  • The Myth Making of Antifa Intellectuals

    The Myth Making of Antifa Intellectuals0

    Mark Bray is in his early thirties and the recipient of a Ph.D. in history from Rutgers in 2016. He is also rapidly becoming antifa’s chief ideologue. Among his works describing or advocating for the often violent demonstrators are Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook and Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street. Bray has yet to find a major

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  • Is Gender Equality a Self-defeating Goal?

    Is Gender Equality a Self-defeating Goal?0

    One of the great obsessions of politics and economics today is “gender equality”. This is the doctrine that men and women should be equally represented in public office and in currently male dominated professions, enjoy equal average earnings and do an equal amount of domestic work. Obviously, we are not there yet, but countless academics are beavering

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  • Illegal Immigration Hurts Black Americans Most

    Illegal Immigration Hurts Black Americans Most0

    In the 19th century, savvy American saloon-owners offered free lunches to attract noontime patrons. Inevitably, the diners would get thirsty and buy expensive drinks—thus was born the expression, “there’s no such thing as a free lunch.” Despite its humble origins, the phrase captures a deep and omnipresent truth: everything has a price, an opportunity cost,

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  • Be Careful Using the NPC Meme

    Be Careful Using the NPC Meme0

    If you spend as much time on the internet as I do (which you probably shouldn’t), you’ve likely seen plenty of expressionless, crudely-drawn gray faces popping up in your various feeds lately. A new meme has been born. For those not up to date on the finer points of internet discourse, a “meme” is a

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