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  • Going Local With the Little Red Microschool

    Going Local With the Little Red Microschool1

    Have you ever heard someone use the phrase “Go Local”? The concept, which encourages supporting local industries and businesses, has grown in popularity over the years with people of all political persuasions. But oddly enough, there’s one area where “go local” has been roundly shunned over the years, and that is education. Oh, sure, people

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  • Publius Rutilius Rufus: Rome’s ‘Last Honest Man’

    Publius Rutilius Rufus: Rome’s ‘Last Honest Man’2

    Banished for debasing the currency from his home city in what is now north-central Turkey, Diogenes of Sinope chose to beg in the streets of Corinth and Athens, live in a clay jar, and eschew wealth of any kind. The story is often told that he walked the streets with a lantern, looking in vain for

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  • React19 Advocacy Group Helps V*x-Injured Who Government Failed

    React19 Advocacy Group Helps V*x-Injured Who Government Failed1

    React19, an advocacy group founded in November 2022 by several vax-injured people, is putting the government to shame in its efforts to help folks hurt by the COVID-19 vaccines. So far, the group has awarded grants for medical expenses to over 80 vax-injured people, by contrast to the federal government, which has compensated just four

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  • What Caused the Collapse of Parental Authority?

    What Caused the Collapse of Parental Authority?3

    You’ve been there. You’re in the store, minding your own business when suddenly you hear the angry screams of a child, interspersed with: “Johnny, get up off the floor this instant! I mean it, Johnny! By the time I count to three… Johnny, mommy will give you a cookie when we get to the car

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  • Is ‘Antiracism’ a Grift?

    Is ‘Antiracism’ a Grift?3

    Henry Rogers was born in Queens in 1982, to middle-class parents deeply involved in civil rights activism. After completing journalism and African American Studies programs at several universities, including Temple University where he completed his Ph.D., Rogers began a career as a university lecturer, taking up various posts along the East Coast in history and

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  • The Intellectual Purpose of Education: Why ‘Impractical’ Subjects Are Still Worth Learning

    The Intellectual Purpose of Education: Why ‘Impractical’ Subjects Are Still Worth Learning1

    It’s a complaint I’ve heard often, and (I’ll confess) occasionally spoken myself: “What use is learning math? It’s not like it’s going to help me in life!” In eighth grade geometry, the complaints seemed legitimate. Why was I calculating the angles of triangle XYZ? I didn’t know what career I was going to pursue, but—at

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