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Graduation for Graduation’s Sake SOMETHING STRUCK ME wrong about all the Indiana public school districts this week touting increases in their graduation rates. Shouldn’t we be worried about what is being graduated? Civic education, for instance. Gallup tell us that only 41 percent of those born after 1997 are proud to be an American compared with 83 percent Read the full article…
Franke: Book ReviewEdmund Burke
by Mark Franke Edmund Burke was a philosophical hero for us Young Americans for Freedom undergraduates back in the Nixon administration. In large part this was due to Russell Kirk’s autobiography, “Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered,” that had just been released. In recent years Burke’s status has been brought into question by factions within the Read the full article…
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Creating a Homeless Magnet AGAIN, AS CITIES throughout the nation gear up to lure business away from New York City’s socialist mayor, my city is taking a different tact. We are striving to become as much like New York City as our meager resources permit — complete with a government grocery, a casino and upgraded homeless Read the full article…
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A Word for our Times solipsism | ˈsäləpˌsizəm | noun. The quality of being self-centered or selfish. In philosophy it is the view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist. “SOLIPSISM” IS A GOOD WORD. More use can be made of it. The late Charles Krauthammer used it to characterize persons Read the full article…
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‘Alabama 27, Indiana 24‘ THE LATE BOB BARTLEY, editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial pages, understood the intrinsic value of journalism. He imagined a campfire of prehistoric hunters where one in the circle had a better memory for game trails than the others. That member of the party earned special privileges (a Mammoth rib perhaps) irrespective of Read the full article…
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Sharks Are Only Human After All I ADMIT to spending too much time trying to make sense of the world. Why, for instance, do we provide aid and shelter to foreign nationals who appear to hate us? Nonetheless, it is important to keep tabs on the more egregious examples of softheadedness. Here is the latest in my Read the full article…
