Bryan Caplan misnamed his recent tour-de-force on the failures of the American education system. The Case Against Education should be entitled The Case Against Schooling, as the great Gene Epstein has pointed out. Still, Caplan’s research and arguments lead to the ultimate conclusions that Brett Veinotte at the SchoolSucks Project and Tom Woods among others have…
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Fr. Strebola, O.P. really got me today. A blessed and holy Lent to all Christians. Remember that we are dust and to dust we shall return: We thirst for His grace and salvation. *Henry Jones Sr. and Indy were right in The Last Crusade: Only the penitent man will pass.
When the question–as the question has been framed for not years but decades now–is no longer, “What policies do the differing candidates possess?”, and has instead become, “Which of the candidates is the least corrupt in the robber-cabal?”, or, “Which one is going to be slowest and most inefficient in stealing from me?”, that’s the…
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Cassie Jaye deserves some sort of medal, award or honor. Sure, it took heroic courage to release The Red Pill. But, all the more impressive was that–though she identified herself as a feminist at the start of the project–she ultimately came to recognize the axiomatic religiosity of radical, second wave feminism; that it is nothing…
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American history in the smallest of nutshells… The Colonial Era, Independence and Constitution, 1550-1789 After exploring North America, the Spanish, French and English engaged in a establishing colonies. Following the establishment, in a haphazard way, of ultimately thirteen unique colonies along the East Coast, the English emerged as triumphant over the French and their Indian…
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121 years ago today (in fact nearly to the hour I write this), the then Assistant Secretary of the Navy (!), Theodore Roosevelt ordered the Pacific Squadron of Commodore George Dewey to ready for an attack of the Spanish fleet docked in Manilla. That’s right: Before the Congress acted and without anyone’s knowledge, this warmonger…
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This is a recording of a lecture/class discussion on the turn of the century debate on the legitimacy (or lack thereof) of American overseas expansionism. I cite and reference to a large extent the great work of Stephen Kinzer on the subject matter found in: Enjoy.
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