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  • How to Fight Our Failed Post-Modernist Gods

    How to Fight Our Failed Post-Modernist Gods1

    When men make themselves gods, they make themselves demons. The last hundred years bear out this assertion. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and other dictators wielded the power of life and death over millions of people. Those who blessed these tyrants or venerated them had more favorable chances of survival and success. Those who cursed these tyrants

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  • People Are Increasingly Unaware of Their Ignorance, and It’s a Problem

    People Are Increasingly Unaware of Their Ignorance, and It’s a Problem6

    “Has there ever been a time in the world’s history when people were more sure of their opinions?” asks Jim Ferrell of the Arbinger Insitute. Ferrell observes, “We become set in our opinions precisely because we have lost sight of the fact that they are merely opinions…our culture is suffering from what one might call ‘opinion

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  • Why It’s So Hard to Get Kids Off Their Screens

    Why It’s So Hard to Get Kids Off Their Screens1

    “How many of you have closed your email and then immediately reopened it because you might have just gotten an email?” Laughter rippled through the audience — including me — as we listened to Emily Cherkin give a talk at The Brearley School in Manhattan about tech and kids and us: parents, kids, educators, email

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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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  • ‘Oedipus Rex’ and Victimhood Culture

    ‘Oedipus Rex’ and Victimhood Culture1

    A plague has struck Thebes, and the Oracle declares that the city is cursed due to the presence of a murderer who is an abomination in the sight of the gods. This murderer killed the former king of Thebes Laius. And the current king, Oedipus, sets out doggedly to find the killer so he can

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