Culture

Impeachment Is About Dismissing the Will of the People 0
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- January 27, 2020
People are stubborn. We like what’s familiar. Coronavirus in China? People eating bat soup? In a chaotic and dangerous world, it’s comforting to know – or at least to think – that we have some control. Whether someone identifies as conservative or liberal tends to boil down to their response to this question: should people generally be left alone,
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‘Miss Virginia’ Depicts the Education Dilemma of Many Lower-Income Families 0
- Culture
- January 27, 2020
Every once in awhile, a film comes along that you can’t stop thinking about long after the credits roll. Miss Virginia is such a movie. With superb acting and heart-wrenching emotion, it features the true story of Virginia Walden Ford, a Washington, D.C. mom who simply wanted better education options for her child and who would
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Christian Democracy and the Future of Europe 0
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- January 24, 2020
In mid-December, I had the pleasure and honour of taking part in a public debate in Hungary on Christian Democracy and its role in contemporary European politics. I was one of a panel of five “experts,” which included a German, a Pole, a Hungarian, and, last but not least, a fellow Englishman, Theodore Dalrymple, who
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The Appalling Elitism of Dollar Store Bans 0
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- January 24, 2020
Should city governments dictate where you can shop for food? If your neighbors see a need for a store, and happily patronize it, should outsiders shut down that option? These are the battle lines of the emerging movement against dollar stores. Tulsa, Oklahoma, Mesquite, Texas, Dekalb County, Georgia, New Orleans, Louisiana, and other municipalities nationwide
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Should Women Stay Single?0
- Culture
- January 24, 2020
Joseph Chamie, the former director of the United Nations Population Division, recently published an article entitled “Should women stay single?” It presents a grim view of married life, and seems to answer the question largely in the affirmative. Chamie writes: Single women generally experience fewer stresses and compromises than married women. Furthermore, single women feel more empowered, enjoying greater personal autonomy and freedoms than married
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Why We Need Local Newspapers to Protect the Common Good 0
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- January 24, 2020
While many newspapers have shut down or laid off employees in the last ten years, many small-town newspapers across the country are not only surviving, but in some cases are thriving. That they are doing so is the result of several factors – their focus on local news, their feature stories on festivals, the arts,
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