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The Problem with the ‘Me Too’ Campaign 0
- Culture
- October 18, 2017
“Me too.” If your social media feeds have been filled with your friends writing this phrase, you may be wondering exactly what’s going on. You can blame Alyssa Milano. On Sunday the actress tweeted: “Suggested by a friend: If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote ‘Me too’ as a status,
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Trial By Ordeal Was Actually an Effective Test of Guilt 0
- History
- October 18, 2017
The quest for criminal justice is fraught with uncertainty. Did the defendant commit the crime, or is he a victim of incriminating circumstances? Is he guilty as charged, or has he been charged guilty by an overzealous prosecutor? Unsure about the truth, we often end up guessing ‘He did it’ when he might not have,
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A Case Study in Fake News: ‘Mom was called to school after her daughter hit another student. Her response was perfect’0
- Culture
- October 18, 2017
The headline is catchy: ‘Mom was called to school after her daughter hit another student. Her response was perfect.’ The article last night appeared twice in my Facebook feed within a span of 30 minutes, so I decided to click. Here’s the gist of the story: An ER nurse is called into school because her
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Economist: A ‘Great Reset’ is Coming to America 0
- Economics
- October 18, 2017
Americans have become afraid of change. That’s the seemingly counterintuitive observation of Tyler Cowen’s newly released book, The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Change. Cowen is an economics professor at George Mason University who runs perhaps the most popular economics blog in the world, Marginal Revolution. Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping
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Benjamin Constant: The Greatest French Libertarian Thinker You’ve Never Heard Of 0
- Economics
- October 18, 2017
October 25 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Constant, who Nicholas Capaldi termed “the key thinker in the French classical liberal tradition between Montesquieu and Tocqueville,” and Isaiah Berlin characterized as “the most eloquent of all defenders of freedom and privacy.” One might expect that with such plaudits, Constant’s quarter-millennium anniversary would
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College Professor Under Siege for Challenging Transgender Orthodoxy 0
- Education
- October 18, 2017
A Boise State University professor recently learned what happens when you challenge left-wing social narratives on college campuses. Scott Yenor, a tenured professor, has been under siege on campus after publishing articles with The Heritage Foundation and The Daily Signal about feminism and the transgender movement. In those articles, Yenor explained the similarity in philosophy
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