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What do the Cold War and the Sexual Revolution have in common?
An awesome piece from Mary Eberstadt in First Things… She starts with a description of the intellectual elite’s thoughts about communism before the fall of the Berlin Wall– despite the evidences. She...
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Divorcing Marriage
A staggering piece by Stephen Baskerville in Touchstone… I’ve written at length that marriage has been damaged much moreso by divorce than by calls for (or movements toward) “same-sex” marriage....
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More on Historical Hoosier Eugenics
A little more than a year ago, I wrote a really nice piece on this topic– on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the nation’s first eugenics law (in Indiana). Read more on More on Historical...
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Reed’s classic piece on Hoover, FDR, and the Great Depression
Brief excerpts from Lawrence Reed’s classic 1981 article on the Great Depression, published in The Freeman and now republished by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy (which I just received in the...
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April Fools and April 15th
Just in time for April 1st and April 15th, let’s talk about taxes. On April 1st, the excise tax on cigarettes was increased dramatically—from $.39 to $1.01 per pack. It’s fitting that this occurred on...
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Two recent essays on health care/insurance and reform
Published in newspapers across Indiana– for example, here and here in the (Jeffersonville/New Albany) News-Tribune… Excerpts from essay #1: …We also hear assertions that various forms of government...
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What can we learn from Gates-gate?
Now that the saga of Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Officer James Crowley has moved to the back-burner, let’s look at three less obvious lessons from Skip and Jimmy’s not-so-excellent adventure. Read...
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The Incarnation and “the foolishness of God”
I love the song, “Mary, did you know?”… Reflect on the words… The Incarnation is at the heart of the Gospel– not just that Jesus came as the GodMan in bodily form, as the ultimate sin-bearer, as the...
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A Modest Proposal for Changing Higher Education
In this Great Recession, it is sad to travel through this great country and see the ranks of the unemployed crowded with so many youth. I think we can all agree that this is deplorable—and that we...
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“Let ‘em fail”?
At the most recent GOP presidential debate, there was a famous exchange between CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Rep. Ron Paul, and the partisan crowd. Blitzer asked Paul about a hypothetical 30-year-old man who...
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