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  • Choosing Children—Over More Than Just Guns

    Choosing Children—Over More Than Just Guns2

    The spate of recent mass shootings is once again turning us all into experts who wax eloquent on social media. “We can’t have this anymore,” many shout. “It’s time to do something!” “Doing something,” of course, often doubles as code for gun control. But such gun control is right and good, individuals argue, because it

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  • In a World Full of Robots, Humans Wanted

    In a World Full of Robots, Humans Wanted1

    The K-12 district schools I went to while growing up in a Boston suburb look nearly the same today as they did when I attended them in the 1980s and 90s, when they also looked quite similar to how they did when my father attended those same schools in the 1950s and 60s. Sure, there

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  • Indifferent Citizens Are No Better Than the Corrupt Government They Detest

    Indifferent Citizens Are No Better Than the Corrupt Government They Detest5

    It’s not much of a secret that I’m a fan of old movies. Friends have teased me that I know the names of actors and actresses from the 1930s and 1940s better than those on the big screen today—and they’re right, I do! There’s a wholesomeness about the old movies that I love, and although

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  • Truth Dies in Darkness

    Truth Dies in Darkness5

    Can you kill truth? Probably not, but a lot of people are doing their best to dig its grave. A man I know teaches in a prestigious private school in Northern Virginia that prides itself on its progressive agenda. Students and faculty attend workshops on such subjects as critical race theory, and teachers must be

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  • California Ranks Dead Last Among US States in Tipping. Why?

    California Ranks Dead Last Among US States in Tipping. Why?7

    “I’m going to have to ask you to put your cigarette out.” I was a college student working as a waiter at a Wisconsin restaurant more than twenty years ago when I sheepishly said these words. I didn’t like saying them, and was frustrated I had to. The guest, who was sitting with his date

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  • Bud Light, Nike, and Searching for Common Sense

    Bud Light, Nike, and Searching for Common Sense4

    “Stupid is as stupid does.” That saying, popularized by the 1994 movie Forrest Gump, has been around a good while. The expression means that a person’s intelligence can be judged by his actions. Someone can have a law degree from Yale, but if he drives his car at 35 mph on an acceleration ramp while

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