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Charlie Chaplin Showed Us a Better Way to Deal With Nazis0
- Culture
- August 25, 2017
White nationalists and neo-Nazis are having their moment. Former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard David Duke is back, yet again, in the media spotlight, while newer figures such as white supremacist Richard Spencer and Christopher Cantwell are broadcasting their views via social media feeds and niche internet channels. Many Americans are wondering if this resurgent
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To Be A Happy Person, Understand Marginal Utility0
- Economics
- August 24, 2017
I’m at dinner and the hostess serves me pie for dessert. I gobble it up. Then the hostess says, “Would you like another piece?” I politely decline. In her head, she is thinking “he hates my pie,” but this is totally wrong. I love her pie, especially the first piece. But the second piece has
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Study Reveals How Parents May Help Children Weather the Culture Wars0
- Culture
- August 24, 2017
When Donald Trump was first elected for president, the news media began to ask how parents could best raise their children under the shadow of his leadership. TIME suggested parents teach their daughters to resist sexism. Jezebel insisted that parents raise sons by “refusing to engage in reductive binaries.” And the Huffington Post suggested that
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Scottish NYU Student: U.S. Universities ‘Stifling’ and ‘Dangerously Insular’0
- Education
- August 24, 2017
In a recent article for The Spectator, New York University journalism major Madeleine Kearns wrote about her first year at a U.S. university. The experience she describes does not sound very positive. Kearns, who was born in Glasgow, Scotland describes an environment that would have looked like a parody of a university setting a generation
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Free Speech is More Important than Bruised Feelings0
- Culture
- August 24, 2017
The first time I felt threatened by someone else’s free speech, I was a freshman in college. My college was plagued by a young man who would stand outside the library and use the word of God to belittle and harass students, especially young women. Once every few months, this man would show up to
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Douglas Murray and ‘The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam’0
- Culture
- August 24, 2017
That Americans are a very lucky people was long ago recognized by a German Chancellor. That would be Otto von Bismarck, who is alleged to have muttered more than once that “God takes care of drunks, little children, and the United States of America.” Well, God is apparently still at it, whether we realize it
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Don’t Kill the Penny0
- Culture
- August 24, 2017
Governments have long waged a war on cash in an attempt to curb terrorism and tax evasion. Their focus has typically been on eliminating large denominations, like Europe’s €500 bill or India’s 1,000 rupee note. Two U.S. lawmakers have a much smaller target in mind: the lowly penny, perhaps most commonly found in jars and
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Want Teenage Boys to Read? Give Them Books About Heroes0
- Culture
- August 23, 2017
Studies show that teenage boys lag behind teenage girls in reading. Even in adulthood, women are far more enthusiastic readers; two out of three adults who say they never read books are male. Debate rages about whether biology or culture is to blame, but the fact remains that girls simply seem to enjoy reading more—how
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Should an Armed Nazi Horde Be Permitted to Invade Your Town?0
- Culture
- August 23, 2017
The American Civil Liberties Union has reversed itself to decide: now it’s gone too far. They will defend the right of speech, the right to associate, the right to protest and march. They will defend the rights of hate groups, hate speech, and the most egregious gatherings you can imagine. What they will no longer defend
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