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MLK’s Nobel Peace Prize Speech0
- Education
- January 13, 2017
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s relentless commitment to peace resulted in an extraordinary honor. On Oct. 14, 1964 the Georgia-born minister became the youngest person to ever win the award, which he received for his nonviolent resistance to racial oppression. Two months later, King, who donated the $54,123 Nobel Prize money to the civil rights
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Millennials Who Borrowed Money to Get a Degree Got Destroyed (See Chart)0
- Culture
- January 13, 2017
If there’s one generation that has become the scapegoat for the nation’s problems, it’s the millennials. They don’t get married and start families. They live in mom’s basement and don’t buy their own house. They drift from job to job and school to school trying to find their “passion.” In short, they can’t “adult.” But
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Is it Rational to Fear Corporations More than Governments?0
- Culture
- January 13, 2017
I recently had a delightful discussion with a friend who is a physician—we’ll call her Kortney—about the Affordable Care Act. I’ve long been skeptical of the idea that the federal government could create an efficient and affordable consumer marketplace for healthcare, a notoriously complicated and expansive system that touches many industries. Recent developments, I said,
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Yearning for Good, Old-Fashioned Paganism0
- Culture
- January 12, 2017
Although I confess that I’m a Christian, I pine sometimes for some good old fashioned paganism. Not the nonsense of the neo-pagans who have about as much in common with the real McCoy as a divorcee has with a virgin (to employ C. S. Lewis’ slap-in-the-face analogy), or, to move from the shockingly sublime to
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U.S. Judge: Administrators Turning Colleges into ‘Surveillance States’0
- Culture
- January 12, 2017
Early last year, the Higher Education Research Institute released their annual survey on the attitudes and ideas of college freshman. Not surprisingly, the survey mirrored events we’ve seen breaking out on campuses across the nation, namely, little tolerance for viewpoints differing from those of students. In fact, more than 70 percent of college freshmen in
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The Problem With Defining Certain Speech and Crimes as ‘Hate’0
- Culture
- January 12, 2017
We would all like to live in a world without hate. Indeed, most of us would like to live in a life without hate. But I would like to make another, and more modest, proposal regarding “Hate-“. By this, I mean the use of the word “hate” to add extra zing to some public policy
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Nobody Knows Where the Word ‘Religion’ Comes From0
- History
- January 12, 2017
In English, “religion” is the most common, catch-all term to refer to any organized group that worships a higher power. It is at the center of some of modernity’s most-heated controversies on the subjects of freedom, reason, morality, culture, and violence, and is a word that often inspires polar reactions of both respect and scorn.
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Nat Hentoff Will Be Missed0
- Economics
- January 12, 2017
Great human rights activists tend to know each other. Wednesday, Wesley J. Smith joined me on radio to talk about life, Nat Hentoff, and Wesley’s tribute in National Review Online last weekend. We have lost a great writer, civil libertarian, free speech absolutist, jazz historian, and pro-life advocate, Nat Hentoff, who died today at 91. As an
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Is Your Smartphone Making You Paranoid?0
- Culture
- January 12, 2017
Imagine you are visiting a new city and get lost on your way to that famous must-see museum. In times of yore – actually just about 10 years ago – you might have had to consult a friendly local to direct you. Today, with all the friendly locals still very much around you on the
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