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  • Do Top Spending States Get Better Educational Results?

    Do Top Spending States Get Better Educational Results?0

    Previously, we highlighted a recent Department of Education report which found that New York, the District of Columbia, and Alaska are some of the highest spending states in the nation when it comes to education. Each one spends well over $18,000 per student per year. But aren’t those big bucks worth it? After all, the

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  • Which States Spend the Most Per Student?

    Which States Spend the Most Per Student?0

    When it comes to choosing a place to live, most parents select their home with a wary eye cast toward the schools the neighborhood offers. Although it’s not often uttered outright, conventional wisdom suggests that the more expensive your neighborhood – or the more property taxes you pay – the better the schools. But schools

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  • The Virtues of Learning to Sew

    The Virtues of Learning to Sew0

    I find myself feeling nostalgic these days. My kids are growing up in a different world than the one I knew at their age. My childhood encompassed a time before personal computers, cell phones, and the internet. We had five channels on the television—my family lived so far out of town that we didn’t have

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  • The College Textbook Racket

    The College Textbook Racket0

    The business of selling college textbooks is a racket. As Ernie Smith of Atlas Obscura notes, it has a long history. Every academic year a new edition of practically every college textbook is released by the publisher. The prices of college textbooks are horrendously high, sometimes in excess of $200. Since textbooks are required reading

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  • Scholar: White Guilt is Responsible for Our Toxic Politics

    Scholar: White Guilt is Responsible for Our Toxic Politics0

    AP released a poll this week showing that Americans are deeply divided.  Those seeking to better understand why might consider reading Shelby Steele’s recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. Steele, a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, argues that “white guilt” has created in the American system “a mock politics based on the pretense

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  • Lost in the Gender Twilight Zone

    Lost in the Gender Twilight Zone0

    Taylor Beggs is a female wrestler in Texas who is “transitioning” to a male. She recently won the state girls wresting championship to the dismay of many of the other girls competing, some of whom dropped out rather than face someone with a competitive advantage. The process in which a person “transitions” from one gender

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  • Entrepreneur: Why I Left the Left

    Entrepreneur: Why I Left the Left0

    This past Saturday I drove down to the local gun store in my quaint mountain town to pick up some bismuth shells, just in time for an early morning Sunday hunt. As I perused the impressive selection of bird bashers, a small fracas in my periphery began rising to a twangy crescendo. I rounded a

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  • Can States Secede from the United States?

    Can States Secede from the United States?0

    While many believe that the American Civil War “settled” the issue of secession for all time, such a view must be met with the scrutiny of honest scholarship. The secession question seems particularly relevant today with the rise of the Calexit movement. And a candid study of historical context and the notes from the ratification debates

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  • ‘Logan’ and the Challenges of Fatherhood

    ‘Logan’ and the Challenges of Fatherhood0

    Hugh Jackman has been playing Wolverine for seventeen years and nine films, longer than his young co-star Dafne Keen has been alive. In Logan, his R-rated and final ride as the adamantium-clawed mutant, Jackman embraces his age and experience to play a grizzled, broken-down Wolverine, a man of violence who has lost his way—until a

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