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  • The Arrogant Ignorance of the ‘Well-Educated’

    The Arrogant Ignorance of the ‘Well-Educated’0

    On more than one occasion my essays for The Imaginative Conservative have been inspired by bumper stickers. Many moons ago, for instance, I wrote “The Wisdom and Wickedness of Women” in response to seeing a bumper sticker declaring that “Well Behaved Women Do Not Make History.” Recently, sitting in traffic, I saw this very same bumper sticker on

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  • My Meeting with Solzhenitsyn

    My Meeting with Solzhenitsyn0

    Almost anyone of my generation will remember Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, he was a hero in the struggle against Soviet tyranny, as well as being one of the finest novelists and historians of the twentieth century. Back in the late-1990s, I had the inestimable honor to travel to Moscow

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  • Is All Lives Matter a Hateful Message?

    Is All Lives Matter a Hateful Message?0

    Last week, student leaders at the University of Houston drafted a bill giving the student body president emergency powers to punish one of its members, Vice President Rohini Sethi. Following the slaying of five police officers in Dallas, Sethi posted these two phrases on social media: “Forget #BlackLivesMatter; more like #AllLivesMatter” Her fellow student activists

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  • Why cooking from scratch is still important

    Why cooking from scratch is still important1

    When I was in 6th grade, my mother bravely invited 10 of my friends to a local church kitchen and taught them how to make apple pie. If such a scenario leaves you envisioning a scene of mass destruction, you’d be close. After all, our casualties that day only included one upset bowl of cinnamon

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  • Central planners have a long history of controling birth

    Central planners have a long history of controling birth0

    Even after all these years of experience, socialism still has a reputation for being a humane alternative to capitalism. It’s preposterous because socialism means controlling or stealing people’s property, whereas capitalism mean nothing more or less than the freedom to own, accumulate, and trade property. But that’s not all that socialism means. It also means

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  • Can’t stand Hillary or Trump? Here’s what you must do.

    Can’t stand Hillary or Trump? Here’s what you must do.1

    I can’t recall an election in which the two leading candidates were more reviled in both breadth and depth. The rejoinder I keep hearing is that 2016 is the Lesser of Two Evils Election.   The data bears this out. A poll conducted in May by the Washington Post found that 57 percent of people

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