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  • The World’s Poorest People Are Getting Richer Faster than Anyone Else

    The World’s Poorest People Are Getting Richer Faster than Anyone Else0

    Last Tuesday marked the 25th anniversary of the United Nations’ International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. The date intentionally coincides with the 30th anniversary of the Call to Action, which saw the French anti-poverty campaigner Father Joseph Wresinski ask the international community, in front of 100,000 Parisians, to “strive to eradicate extreme poverty”. To mark

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  • The 5 Things Men and Women Should Look for in a Mate

    The 5 Things Men and Women Should Look for in a Mate0

    It’s no secret that marriage rates are declining. Recent data from Pew shows that between 1960 and 2016, marriage rates for those 18 and older fell from 72 percent to 50 percent. There are many theories on why this is. The rise of cohabitation and the fear of divorce. The increase in education attainment. The

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  • One Principal’s Surprising Advice to School Administrators

    One Principal’s Surprising Advice to School Administrators0

    Advice on how to improve schools is a dime a dozen. Teach math earlier. Start the school day later. Read more books. School year round. And the list goes on. All these suggestions are worth a try and may prove to be quite helpful. But do they treat the symptoms rather than one of the

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  • Obama Justice Department’s $1 Billion ‘Slush Fund’ Boosted Liberal Groups

    Obama Justice Department’s $1 Billion ‘Slush Fund’ Boosted Liberal Groups0

    President Barack Obama’s Justice Department created a “slush fund” of nearly $1 billion using legal settlements with banks and steered those funds to political allies on the left while excluding conservative groups, internal documents show. Tony West, an associate attorney general during the Obama administration who is now a top official at PepsiCo Inc., figures

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  • Inquisition Torture: Not what you think?

    Inquisition Torture: Not what you think?0

    It is almost fifty years since the “Spanish Inquisition” sketch by Monty Python’s Flying Circus was first aired on British television. Today its catchphrase, “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition,” has an enshrined place in popular culture. It is, however, ironic that the well-known catchphrase contradicts the grim reality of life in our increasingly secular culture.

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  • Escape the Moral Matrix with the Red Pill of Intellectual Diversity

    Escape the Moral Matrix with the Red Pill of Intellectual Diversity0

    Back in 2012, before the ascendance of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency and before neologisms such as “trigger warnings,” “microaggressions, and “safe spaces” became part of regular college campus discourse, New York University social psychologist Jonathan Haidt published a groundbreaking book titled The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion.

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  • Anxiety: Here’s Why So Many of Us Have It

    Anxiety: Here’s Why So Many of Us Have It0

    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)

    5 Things Marx Wanted to Abolish (Besides Private Property)0

    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?

    Will Christianity be Driven Back into the Catacombs?0

    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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