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Anxiety: Here’s Why So Many of Us Have It 0
- Culture
- October 27, 2017
Arguably, a good deal of Americans are in a state of anxiety or depression. They have little to no savings. They have mountains of debt. They are lonely, even in their relationships. They sense that a sudden change in the economy would bring their world crashing down upon them. They fear they will fail, but they
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5 Things Marx Wanted to Abolish (Besides Private Property)0
- Family
- October 27, 2017
One of the remarkable things about The Communist Manifesto is its honesty. Karl Marx might not have been a very good guy, but he was refreshingly candid about the aims of Communism. This brazenness, one could argue, is baked into the Communist psyche. “The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims,” Marx declared in
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Will Christianity be Driven Back into the Catacombs?0
- Culture
- October 26, 2017
Despite popular opinion, it must be acknowledged that America and the West were once culturally Christian. That doesn’t mean that the government was absolutely Christian, but rather that cultural values were most often shaped by Christian ethics and metaphysics, and that they even shaped the laws of the land. Our national holidays have always been around
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Why Children Should Learn to Use Power Tools 0
- Culture
- October 26, 2017
When I was about 10 years old, a friend and I attended a summer program for kids. One of the activities involved making a small wooden footstool. We were both quite thrilled with the project, but my friend grew less thrilled when she discovered that one of the adults saw it as his duty to
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We Live in an Era of Mass Delusion 0
- Culture
- October 26, 2017
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The Problem with the Moana Costume Isn’t Cultural Appropriation 0
- Culture
- October 26, 2017
In an utterly unsurprising development, social justice warriors are now not only dictating to American adults what they can wear on Halloween, but children as well. Social convention was once to abstain from culturally insensitive garb like “black face,” but thanks to politically correct scolds, the social expectation of what is acceptable and what is
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Taking Ta-Nehisi Coates Seriously 0
- Economics
- October 26, 2017
In June 2014, Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote a feature in the Atlantic arguing that the terrible history of blacks in the United States justified reparations. Many consider this a radical proposition. Yet critical reaction was mild. Kevin Williamson, writing in National Review, disagreed with Coates’ proposal but was impressed with the “beautifully written monograph,” describing the
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It’s Time for the Supreme Court to Take Up the Second Amendment Again, Scholars Say 0
- Politics
- October 26, 2017
Because the Second Amendment protects the right to bear all arms in common lawful use, any law that limits that right has to pass certain standards to be constitutionally permissible. The courts haven’t yet ironed out exactly what kind of scrutiny laws implicating the Second Amendment must pass, but such laws must have an important
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Head Lice Epidemics Are Breaking Out in Schools Across the U.S.0
- Education
- October 26, 2017
Head lice in children are rampant in schools throughout the country. The CDC reports that an estimated six to 12 million young people get head lice each year, and there are indications that these itchy bugs are growing widely resistant to the insecticides commonly used to treat them. A head lice outbreak earlier this month
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Anxiety: Here’s Why So Many of Us Have It 0