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Friday Comic: Prayers 0
- Entertainment
- February 23, 2024
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Schumpeter on How Higher Education Wrecks Freedom 1
- Education
- February 22, 2024
A book that pays high returns for decades with endless insights is Joseph Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1943). It is not a systematic treatise. It’s more of a series of observations about huge problems that vexed those times and ours. Many are informed by economics. Some by history. Some by sociology and culture. Schumpeter’s outlook
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The Cancelled Black Harvard Professor Who Found No Racial Bias in Police Shootings 6
- Education, Featured, Politics
- February 22, 2024
Unless you have lived under a rock for the last four years, you will be very familiar with the claim that black Americans are disproportionately victims of police shootings compared with their white counterparts. But a nearly eight-year-old study challenging this narrative is enjoying renewed attention thanks to a recent high-profile interview of the study’s
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The Arts Won’t Save Us 6
- Culture, Western Civilization
- February 21, 2024
I have lately noticed an uptick across conservative platforms regarding the importance of fine arts in traditional society. Most of it I agree with, especially considering its influence on education and wonder. But the trend often emphasizes that fine arts will play a major role in winning the modern culture war. Is this really true?
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What’s America To Do With a Weaponized Intelligence Community?6
- Politics, Featured
- February 21, 2024
The Intelligence Community of the United States of America has been weaponized against the incumbent leader’s political opposition, having even turned the spy agencies of our closest allies against the leading Republican candidate. This is the inescapable conclusion to be drawn if a bombshell report released last week is accurate. Relying on “multiple credible witnesses,”
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The Sort of Men We Need 6
- Culture, Literature
- February 20, 2024
A new book by Mark Helprin is like a surprise gift from St. Nick, so when I spotted The Oceans and the Stars: A Sea Story, a War Story, a Love Story on the “New Book” shelf of my public library, I snagged that gift, headed for the checkout desk, and opened it as soon
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