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Ideas and Ideologies

How to Celebrate “Be a Millionaire Day”

I don’t know who determined that May 20 should be “Be a Millionaire Day,” though it is a good idea. I do know that most people’s ideologies

May 20, 2016
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
How Does Brown U. Justify Racial Quotas?

Today, I dropped by the office of my ophthalmologist. Although my eye glasses were broken, the first thing I asked the receptionist was...

May 19, 2016
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Walter Donway
9 Mins
Which Culture Can Make 120 Years Old the Prime of Life?

Emma Morano, age 116, is the last person alive born in the nineteenth century. New cutting-edge technologies could mean that more than a few

May 18, 2016
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Edward Hudgins
6 Mins
Millennials Need Capitalist Morality

A Harvard survey found that only 42% of 18 to 29 year olds support capitalism. The good news of sorts is that only 33% support socialism....

Apr 28, 2016
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
Aspirations, Gaza Death Tunnels, Schools of Hope

The Nazis used concrete to build gas chambers so they could exterminate six million Jews. But an aspiration different from that of the Gazan

Apr 25, 2016
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
Earth Day’s Subtle Pollution

On the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, my high school class traveled to the Mall in D.C. to mark the occasion. Me? I skipped the trip

Apr 21, 2016
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
Dishonest Attacks on Genetically Modified Organisms

For those who take their health seriously, it’s always a challenge to determine which claims are true and which are fiction. This task is

Apr 16, 2016
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Kevin Schooler
4 Mins
Can Toyota and Reason Overcome Blindness?

If you’ve shut your eyes at the ugly spectacle of political and cultural decline around you, look in the right direction and you’ll see what

Apr 12, 2016
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Yuri’s Night Out: Celebrating 55 Years of Humans in Space

Space enthusiasts mark April 12th as “Yuri’s Night Out,” a celebration of the first human in space: Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth in 1961..

Apr 11, 2016
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
Sanger and Rand: Concrete-Bound America

PJ Media recently posted an amusing quiz asking readers to guess which of 16 quotations were from Ayn Rand and which were from Planned Paren

Apr 8, 2016
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3 Mins
Minimum Wage Reveals Warped Leftist Values

When Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law requiring all employers to pay workers at least $15 per hour, he unbelievably acknowledged that “Economic

Apr 5, 2016
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
The Face of Evil is ISIS

Mar 23, 2016
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David Kelley Ph.D
3 Mins
Will Banning Genetic Engineering Kill You?

Genetic engineering is on an exponential growth path. In 2001 the cost of sequencing a human-sized genome was about $100 million. By 2007...

Dec 3, 2015
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Edward Hudgins
7 Mins
The American Ethic of Success

America was founded on the idea of liberty, and it succeeded because Americans highly valued individualism and achievement. But when

Aug 29, 2015
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2 Mins
Eggs, Global Warming, and Science

The arguments for man-made global warming remind me of the argument that eating eggs causes heart disease. ..

May 11, 2015
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3 Mins
Baltimore riots as Criminal Culture Writ Large

The rioting in Baltimore represents criminal culture writ large. It is what happens every day on a smaller scale in poor minority...

Apr 30, 2015
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Edward Hudgins
7 Mins
How anti-individualist fallacies prevent us from curing death

A recent Washington Post feature documents the “Tech titans’ latest project: Defy death. “ Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder and venture....

Apr 22, 2015
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Edward Hudgins
6 Mins
Time Again to Celebrate Human Achievement!

It is again Human Achievement Hour! On March 28, celebrate all that the modern world offers us as a result of the efforts of the human mind!

Mar 27, 2015
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Edward Hudgins
2 Mins
Postmodernism in the classroom

Postmodernism became the leading intellectual movement in the late twentieth century. It has replaced modernism, the philosophy of the

Mar 23, 2015
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The Atlas Society
3 Mins
Politico Writer Plays Race Card by Calling Millennials Racist

Using Pew data, McElwee acknowledges that Millennials [those born after 1980] “are indeed less likely than baby boomers to say that more....

Mar 13, 2015
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins

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