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  • How Trump Can Make a Beautiful, Cage-Free Border Deal

    How Trump Can Make a Beautiful, Cage-Free Border Deal0

    Dear President Trump,   You can make the greatest border deal the world has ever seen. This deal will unite everyone by rewriting the playbook of politics.   Instead of taxing a divided public to pay for a border wall, offer a plan that gives something to both sides of the debate. Where there is

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  • Embracing Liberty as a Life Philosophy

    Embracing Liberty as a Life Philosophy0

    FEE’s eminent founder, Leonard E. Read, often opined that it was the duty of every lover of liberty to introduce it to others “as a life philosophy.” It’s a phrase we at FEE still use today, and every day. We’re able to preach it with conviction because we practice it with passion. What does it

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  • Denying Someone a Place to Eat Violates Timeless Norms of Hospitality that Go Back to the Homeric Age

    Denying Someone a Place to Eat Violates Timeless Norms of Hospitality that Go Back to the Homeric Age0

    On Feb. 1, 1960, four college students in Greensboro, North Carolina—Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil— sat down at the lunch counter in Woolworth’s and tried to order a bite to eat. They were denied. Authorities were called. Police did not arrest the young men, citing a lack of provocation. So,

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  • On Free Speech, 40% of Americans Are Closer to the Chinese Government’s Interpretation than the Founders

    On Free Speech, 40% of Americans Are Closer to the Chinese Government’s Interpretation than the Founders0

    Reason Magazine asked students at the University of Southern California to define “hate speech.”  Among the students surveyed, Reason found plenty of wannabee dictators eager to offer their definitions of hate speech and ready to make it a crime. The lines students drew between what was or was not hate speech were arbitrary. The statement “Muslims shouldn’t be

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  • Laura Ingalls Wilder Hits the PC Guillotine

    Laura Ingalls Wilder Hits the PC Guillotine1

    Growing up, I never got into stories with knights and fair maidens. Walking around in princess dresses while imagining I was trapped in a castle by a vicious dragon? Not interested. But give me a sunbonnet and braid my hair and I was lost in the world of Laura Ingalls. I still remember being in

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  • How Federal Education Guidelines from 2014 are Destroying Kids’ Lives

    How Federal Education Guidelines from 2014 are Destroying Kids’ Lives0

    In 2015, Intellectual Takeout reported that many classrooms in Saint Paul Public Schools had devolved into physical violence. If a recent story in the Washington Times is any indication, those incidents may be part of a growing nation-wide epidemic.   The children of Josh and Nicole Landers have had horrifying experiences in Baltimore County Public Schools. Their 9-year-old son was bullied so

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