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Human Freedom Index 2018 0
- Culture
- December 27, 2018
“ Cato Instituteâ€™s scholars Tanja PorÄnikÂ and Ian VÃ¡squez have recently released the 2018 Human Freedom Index (HFI), a report where the authors look at freedom in the world using data from 2016. The HFI ranks countries from most to least free after analyzing 79 indicators related to personal and economic freedom. Here are five graphs
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The Ongoing Decline of the American Male 0
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- December 26, 2018
“We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.” ~ C.S. Lewis, The Abolition Of Man In the movie Falling Down, Bill Foster (Michael Douglas) is a defense engineer who has lost
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Saying You’re Against Fascists Doesn’t Excuse Acting Like One 0
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- December 26, 2018
On March 23, 1919, Benito Mussolini, an Italian veteran of the Great War and a publisher of socialist newspapers, created the Fasci di Combattimento (commonly known as the Fascist Party) with the help of a few syndicalist friends. Nearly one hundred years later, the word fascism remains at the forefront of our political discourse even though fascism
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How America Grew Bored with Love 0
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- December 26, 2018
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Three Dangerous Philosophical Novels 1
- Culture
- December 21, 2018
“I choose novels that let me turn my brain off,” a student confessed to me. My immediate response was to chastise her, “You did not receive a brain so that it could be turned off.” However, that evening I found myself streaming an old sitcom episode while washing dishes instead of listening to the dozen
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees 0
- Culture
- December 21, 2018
There are several attitudes towards Christmas, Some of which we may disregard: The social, the torpid, the patently commercial, The rowdy (the pubs being open till midnight), And the childish — which is not that of the child For whom the candle is a star, and the gilded angel Spreading its wings at the summit
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