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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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  • Good Grammar in Text Messages Might Make You Look Like a Jerk

    Good Grammar in Text Messages Might Make You Look Like a Jerk1

    When it comes to texting, the period, full stop, point – whatever you call it – has been getting a lot of attention. People have begun noticing slight changes to the way our smallest punctuation mark is deployed, from declarations that it’s going out of style to claims that it’s becoming angry. What they’re actually

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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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  • Award-Winning Teacher: 8 Problems Plaguing Children

    Award-Winning Teacher: 8 Problems Plaguing Children2

    Shortly after being named New York teacher of the year in the early 1990s, John Taylor Gatto wrote a public letter of resignation, explaining that he could no longer be a part of a system which hurt children and families. Following his resignation, Gatto released a book of essays called Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden

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