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When Communists Abolished the Weekend 0
- Economics
- December 9, 2019
Anti-capitalists on both left and right tell us that “capitalism” is destroying the weekend. The conservatives insist we need laws to punish people who try to sell things on Sunday. Leftists insist “unbridled capitalism” is destroying the weekend, which “lets us cultivate the seeds of civil society…” But it’s not capitalism that’s doing this dirty work. The decline of
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The Anti-Feminist Message Hidden in ‘Little Women’0
- Culture
- December 9, 2019
I’ve been bombarded with ads for the new “Little Women” movie for the last few months. It appears Google knows my preferences well, because, yes, I am curious to see it. But even while I’m curious, I’m also a tad apprehensive. Dana Stevens’ Slate review of the movie fails to quell these fears, for she
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‘Catch and Release Is Over’: Border Apprehensions Drop for Sixth Month in a Row 0
- Politics
- December 9, 2019
Enforcement actions at the U.S.-Mexico border fell again in November, marking six consecutive months of declining apprehensions. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) enforcement actions totaled 42,649 in the month of November, according to data obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The data – which is a combination of the 33,510 arrests and 9,139 inadmissible aliens at the
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What Makes Christmas Movies So Popular?0
- Culture
- December 6, 2019
If you are one of those people who will settle in this evening with a hot cup of apple cider to watch a holiday movie, you are not alone. Holiday movies have become firmly embedded in Americans’ winter celebrations. The New York Times reports a massive increase in new holiday movies this year. Disney, Netflix,
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Transferism, Not Socialism, Is the Drug Americans Are Hooked On 0
- Economics
- December 6, 2019
The United States has never had a meaningful socialist tradition or even a semi-serious socialist party. Socialism in the United States is a fringe movement at best and always has been. This makes the sudden acceptability of socialism all the more surprising. But with one avowed socialist, Bernie Sanders, campaigning for the presidency for a
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Tech and Role Reversals Have Made Both Sexes Unattractive 0
- Culture
- December 6, 2019
Transsexuality affects around 0.6 percent or an estimated 1.4 million of the 327 million people in the U.S. and yet the media and the radical left has curiously made trans people’s experience central to our imaginations and regularly propose policy changes that purport to benefit them. I am skeptical. From my (admittedly not very broad) experience of trans
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