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Happy Days?
The Fifties Were Awful, But Not the Way You Think

The 1950s weren’t an age of conservative bourgeois culture. They were the destructor of that culture.

higher education
In Defense of Adjuncts

How older part-time professors, seasoned by real-world experience, are helping to revitalize American universities.

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The #MeToo Moment
The Logic of Zero Tolerance

We must do what we can to stop sexual harassment. But what behavior separates intolerable or criminal behavior, including sexual harassment, from the mere jerk?

The Doctor Is In
No More Shenanigans

To achieve real reform, the era of the ideologue and the bureaucrat must be brought to an end. Make way for the doctor and the nurse.

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America's Crony Capitalism
Karl Marx to the Rescue?

Frustrated and emasculated, many Americans blame “capitalism” for their woes, but what they really hate is America’s neo-feudalism, in its modern-day, crony capitalist form.

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