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  • Countering Propaganda One Read-Aloud at a Time

    Countering Propaganda One Read-Aloud at a Time2

    Between gender wars, deviant sexual education, declining academic achievement, and plain old safety issues, today’s schools have turned into landmines for parents and students. But while parents are increasingly seeing the problems their children are facing in school, it’s also hard to know how best to deal with them. Parents can take their children out

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  • The Loss of Local Living: Implications for Economics and Culture

    The Loss of Local Living: Implications for Economics and Culture3

    What makes a good city? In his Politics, Aristotle says that one key characteristic of a good city is self-sufficiency. Aquinas, following Aristotle, writes in De Regno: Now there are two ways in which an abundance of foodstuffs can be supplied to a city. The first we have already mentioned, where the soil is so

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  • Were Americans Really Better off During the Great Depression?

    Were Americans Really Better off During the Great Depression?1

    In the ever-evolving world of social media trends, TikTok has seen its fair share of fascinating and sometimes perplexing content. Lately, a concerning trend has emerged where some TikTokers are romanticizing and downplaying the Great Depression, a pivotal period of economic struggle in American history. Influencers on the platform are making bold claims about the

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  • Meet the World Economic Forum’s Media Censorship Op

    Meet the World Economic Forum’s Media Censorship Op1

    Sales of Bud Light beer tanked by 21.4 percent in the fallout of the Dylan Mulvaney saga. Apparently frat boys don’t particularly relate to a creepy man prancing about in pink teenage girl costumes. While big brand Anheuser-Busch has claimed their Bud Light blunder was a one-off, cultural commentator Michael Knowles has uncovered striking evidence to the contrary.

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  • The Global Market Miracle of the 99-Cent Pineapple

    The Global Market Miracle of the 99-Cent Pineapple0

    A few times a year, my local grocery store advertises whole, fresh pineapples for 99 cents. Yours probably does, too. Every time I see it, I can’t help but wonder at the progress of humanity. Pineapple isn’t new. It was first cultivated by the Maya and Aztec peoples in South and Central America, millenia ago.

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  • What the Bud Light Scandal Could Mean for School Choice

    What the Bud Light Scandal Could Mean for School Choice1

    One of the most effective levers of influence in a free market system is the ability for consumers to take their business elsewhere. When Gillette released a marketing campaign in 2019 designed around criticizing “toxic masculinity,” alienating millions of men around the country, consumers responded by taking their business (about $5 billion of it) elsewhere. Gillette hasn’t

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