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Renewing Reason in Our Local Communities 0
- Culture
- September 6, 2019
Nothing puts the struggles of one’s own life in perspective better than watching your peers succumb to despair. Until the turn of the twenty-first century, members of Generation X seemed to have grown beyond their characteristic “latchkey kid” childhoods. Yet today, many of these fellow citizens of ours, now middle-aged, are opioid addicts and victims
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‘Get Your Guns, Boys! They’re Robbing the Bank!’0
- Culture
- September 6, 2019
If you haven’t heard, the city of San Francisco is setting out to rid itself of terrorism. Domestic terrorism, that is. “Great!” many of us would say. “A city should work hard to keep its citizens safe.” The trouble is, San Francisco has an interesting definition of what constitutes a domestic terrorist. In a recent
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What Public Schools Get Wrong About Diversity 0
- Culture
- September 5, 2019
Diversity. It’s one of the buzzwords of this generation. Forget sameness, everyone must be different, while at the same time inclusive. It’s that simple. It sounds like utopia, doesn’t it? A utopia promoted by institutions of all stripes, not the least of which are America’s public schools. But what if our promotion of diversity is
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Karl Marx: Intellectual Father of the 1619 Project?0
- Economics
- September 5, 2019
The New York Times’ 1619 Project seeks to establish the moment the first slave ship landed in Virginia as “a new point of origin for our national story,” because “nearly everything that has made America exceptional grew out of slavery.” The series – which attempts to link American prosperity, our economic system, even our lack of a single-payer healthcare system to slavery – can count
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Data on Amazon Rainforest Fires Tell a Much Different Story Than Social Media 0
- International
- September 5, 2019
“Our House Is on Fire” It is hard to miss the news reports on the fire in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Millions of people are calling for immediate action on social media and, with a limited amount of prior knowledge, there is little surprise that much of what is being reported is inaccurate. A
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How China Weaponizes Mass Migration Against Hong Kong 0
- Culture
- September 5, 2019
HONG KONG – China has instituted an immigration scheme that allows 150 Mainlanders a day to migrate to Hong Kong, and local officials have no power to vet or control who comes. Protesters say the program is being administered by the Chinese Communist Party in order to dilute Hong Kong identity and make the island more pro-Beijing. What’s viewed in Hong
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