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  • Journalist: Public Schools Are Designed to Create ‘Standardized’ Children

    Journalist: Public Schools Are Designed to Create ‘Standardized’ Children2

    It has become quite clear that Americans struggle with knowing how to think for themselves in recent years. This is especially evident in the political opinions they espouse (or don’t). But while many Americans – particularly young ones – don’t recognize this problem in themselves, many others see it clear as day. Employers see it

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  • How Intellectuals Train the Underclass to Feel Helpless

    How Intellectuals Train the Underclass to Feel Helpless1

    Recently a psychologist friend was singing a familiar refrain: “My clients want their problematical circumstances alleviated, but few want to change how they see the world.” Most intransigent among his clients are those with government benefits and mandated weekly therapy. Some have been coming to him for years. Their mindsets are characterized by hopelessness, but

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  • 11 ‘Jokes’ From Liberal, Mean Girl Comedian at DC Journalists Dinner

    11 ‘Jokes’ From Liberal, Mean Girl Comedian at DC Journalists Dinner0

    Editor’s note: Due to the ribald nature of Michelle Wolf’s set, some of the jokes in this article are crass and not family-friendly. At the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday, comedian Michelle Wolf took aim over and over again at conservatives, including singling out White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was seated

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  • Alfie Evans, and the Value of a Single Human Life

    Alfie Evans, and the Value of a Single Human Life0

    To many who can recall it, the on-going drama and death of Alfie Evans in the hospital in Liverpool recalls Burt Bacharach’s plaintiff song: ”What’s It All About, Alfie?” That is exactly the right question here. “What’s it all about, when you sort it out. Alfie?” Probably no single reality could bring together so many

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  • Why Students Need to Nature Today More Than Ever

    Why Students Need to Nature Today More Than Ever0

    In 2017, the rising fever of victimhood, safe spaces, and social justice reached the campus of Evergreen College in Washington state. Its arrival launched married professors, Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying, onto the public stage as progressive individuals who disagreed with the mantra advanced by those aligned with them politically. But the ability to disagree

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  • Why SWAT-style Raids on Bars to ‘Crack Down’ on Underage Drinking Aren’t Helpful

    Why SWAT-style Raids on Bars to ‘Crack Down’ on Underage Drinking Aren’t Helpful0

    Last weekend, police raided a bar in Norwalk, Connecticut, and found 103 underage people drinking, most of whom had no ID on them. Shocking, right? Not so much. That such people frequent bars in violation of the law is not uncommon in any college town in the US today. If they didn’t, economic conditions would

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