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  • Thomas Jefferson could teach Trump about American Greatness

    Thomas Jefferson could teach Trump about American Greatness0

    “The American Dream is dead,” Donald Trump has proclaimed. Trump assures us not to worry because he is “gonna make it bigger and better and stronger than ever before.” And then comes Trumps’ oft-repeated punchline: “We are going to make America great again.” Where is American Greatness Found? In his book The Concept of Mind,

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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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  • 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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  • Do you have a photographic memory?

    Do you have a photographic memory?0

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  • Why moral education should involve moral philosophy

    Why moral education should involve moral philosophy1

    Ethics are increasingly a part of the school curriculum, and practical introductory classes in applied ethics are part of the training that nurses, scientists and soldiers undergo. Ethical education is ubiquitous, even though it may not always involve complicated theoretical debates – but should it include a dose of philosophy? There are powerful reasons for

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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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