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Tolkien’s Odd Alternate Ending to ‘The Lord of the Rings’0
- Entertainment
- May 2, 2017
There are many reasons J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings is considered one of the greatest stories of all-time. (It was voted the best book of the 20th century in a UK readers’ poll a decade and a half ago, and not for the first time.) I’m convinced that one of
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Free College Works–If You Want to Help the Rich 0
- Economics
- May 2, 2017
According to a 2016 poll, more than 60 percent of Americans are in support of offering free tuition at public universities. Given recent developments in New York, that dream may be closer to reality than many think. Such wide support for free college is not surprising, especially considering that Americans regularly hear that a person
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3 Reasons One Public School Advocate is Giving Up on the System 0
- Education
- May 1, 2017
When it comes to discussion of public schools, all too often battle lines seem to be drawn between those on the inside and outside of the system: the teachers and the parents. The teachers understandably want to defend the job they do, while the parents want to ensure that their child doesn’t become another dismal
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How May Day Went From a Religious Holiday to a Socialist One 0
- Economics
- May 1, 2017
It’s the Merry Month of May: Spring is bursting, the birds are singing…and political riots are detonating. Without a doubt, May is a month with motley associations—natural, religious, and political. In many ancient cultures May 1 was regarded as the full arrival of Spring, as expressed in the traditions of dancing around the maypole and
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Pope Francis Has Forgotten the Church’s Own Grand Libertarian Legacy 0
- Economics
- May 1, 2017
Well, it’s a pretty big deal when the Pope attacks libertarianism by name. It’s even more interesting when my Spanish-language publisher believes that the Pope, in an academic paper, was attacking language used by me in particular, by implication but without citation. In a choice passage, the Pope says that libertarianism “deceptively proposes a ‘beautiful
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3 Warning Signs Your Life is a Sitcom About Nothing 0
- Culture
- May 1, 2017
Mo Gawdat is the Chief Business Officer at Google X—the “moonshot’ division of Google that is responsible for speculative projects, such as Google’s driverless cars. Devastated by the sudden and unexpected loss of his beloved teenage son, Ali, Gawdat decided to put his engineering mindset into analyzing what produces happiness. Happiness, Gawdat writes in his
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