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  • Neil Gorsuch Deserves Confirmation

    Neil Gorsuch Deserves Confirmation0

    Party politics, tactics and strategy have dominated everything in government and media. he is the model candidate for the Supreme Court as the next justice to fill the vacancy of Justice Antonin Scalia. His credentials are impeccable, his character and judicial temperament unassailable, his reputation among peers and law clerks sterling and remarkable. His judicial

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  • ‘The Red Pill’ is a Film Feminists Find Hard to Swallow

    ‘The Red Pill’ is a Film Feminists Find Hard to Swallow0

    Intellectual humility—the acknowledgement that the truth is more important than your version of it—requires you to be open-minded enough not only to listen to an opposing viewpoint but to be willing to change yours when you are wrong. It is a quality in short supply and sadly undervalued in our age of arrogance. Filmmaker and

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  • Turkey on the Brink of Democide as Pivotal Referendum Looms

    Turkey on the Brink of Democide as Pivotal Referendum Looms0

    The Turkish people will vote in a momentous constitutional referendum on April 16. If adopted, the proposals would drastically alter the country’s political system. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) introduced the 18 proposed changes to the constitution, with the support of the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). Together they secured the minimum 330

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  • Socialist Mechanic Schools Agitators Disrupting Charles Murray Speech

    Socialist Mechanic Schools Agitators Disrupting Charles Murray Speech0

    Charles Murray was heckled and interrupted again, this time at the University of Villanova, where students formed a “silent protest” that was anything but. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) took a video of the scene (see below), which is worth watching for several reasons. Much of the video is standard fare: A

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  • Prof Explains Why Black Families are Rejecting Public Schools

    Prof Explains Why Black Families are Rejecting Public Schools0

    Because of their long-fought battle for equal access to education, it is generally assumed that black families are big fans of public schooling. That assumption, however, is beginning to show its datedness, as evidenced by the research of University of Georgia College of Education professor Cheryl Fields-Smith. In a recent interview with The 74, Dr.

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  • One Simple Reason Boys are Failing

    One Simple Reason Boys are Failing0

    One of the prominent narratives in society in recent years concerns the idea that women are falling behind and treated unfairly in the classroom and the workplace. An example of this is the annual “Equal Pay Day,” which highlights the gap in earnings between women and men. But while the plight of women often receives

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  • Millennials Postponing Adulthood, Study Shows

    Millennials Postponing Adulthood, Study Shows0

    If a new study is right, many Millennials will require full-time care much earlier in life than Baby Boomers. In fact, many of them seem to require it now. According to the new study from Bowling Green State University, Millennials are delaying adulthood to an extent unheard of in previous generations. Compared to young Boomers of the

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  • Is the West Worth Defending?

    Is the West Worth Defending?0

    There are many people who will cite the West as something which is under threat and something for which we should be prepared to fight to defend. Depending on which defender of the West is pontificating, the threat comes from Russia, or from Islam, or from China, or from some enemy within the West itself.

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  • How Relativism Contradicts Itself

    How Relativism Contradicts Itself1

    It’s often pointed out that relativism is becoming more prevalent in the West. In 2005, Pope Benedict XVI claimed that the West was building “a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one’s own ego and desires.” But though an attitude of relativism may be

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