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Why School Choice Won’t Fix Education0
- Western Civilization
- December 5, 2016
President-Elect Donald Trump has announced Betsy DeVos as his choice to head the U.S. Department of Education. The pick is a clear signal that the Trump administration is intent on pursuing school choice, a fact that the wailing and gnashing of teeth among the self-interested educational establishment would seem to confirm. But it is important
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Hollywood’s Disgraceful Hero-Worship of Castro0
- Culture
- December 2, 2016
Hollywood romanticizes revolutionaries, seeing them as noble, rugged individuals with towering passion and idealism who fight and risk their lives to make the world a better place. Sometimes that view is deserved. But more often than not, given Hollywood’s left-leaning partisanship, it elevates brutal dictators to the status of misunderstood heroes. Thus it’s no surprise that
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The Bureaucracy Is Now More Powerful Than Congress0
- Education
- December 2, 2016
Who creates federal laws? Civics books say it is Congress, but the real answer today may be the executive branch. Earlier this year, James Gattuso and Diane Katz reported that just the 229 major regulations issued since 2009 added over $100 billion in annual costs (according to the regulatory agencies), $22 billion coming in 2015. With estimates of the
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Why Donald Trump Should Heed Plato on Foreign Policy0
- History
- December 2, 2016
Looking ahead to what will be the most defining feature of the Trump administration, Pat Buchanan has noted that it is “Time for a Trump Doctrine.” With Hillary Clinton’s defeat, the nation has the opportunity to resolve the tension between the Obama Doctrine (that the U.S. is not responsible for the management of the Middle
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C.S. Lewis on How the Ego Thwarts Prayer0
- Culture
- December 2, 2016
Do you ever pray? Pew Research recently posed that question to Americans and found that if the U.S. was a village composed of 100 people, just a little more than half would pray daily. Twenty-one percent would pray weekly or monthy, while 23 percent rarely would. I found this scenario interesting, particularly when viewed in
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The Washington Post’s Weird Descent into McCarthyism0
- International
- December 2, 2016
Earlier this week, Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi took the extraordinary step of blasting one of America’s most distinguished media institutions in a story headlined: “The Washington Post ‘Blacklist’ Story Is Shameful and Disgusting.” Taibbi slammed the Post for picking up a narrative spun by an anonymous “anti-propaganda organization” called PropOrNot. The shadow group, which
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