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| Category: | American Thought | Published: | March 2012 |  | | Why Reaganomics Reflects America's True Character | | Phil Gramm | | "The real danger today is not merely a loss of prosperity, but a loss of the kind of character on which prosperity is based." | | |
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| Category: | Worldview | Published: | March 2012 | | | What Surprises Will the Rest of 2012 Bring? | | Noreena Hertz | | "In a complex and intertwined world such as ours, the unexpected is bound to happen. Just think back over the past year or so." | | |
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| Category: | National Affairs | Published: | March 2012 | | | This Church Victory Is a Win for Everyone | | Jonathan W. Emord | | "A government instituted among men to protect the rights of the governed must respect freedom of conscience in matters of religion equally and must leave organization and practices of religion beyond the reach of the state." | | |
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| Category: | Focus | Published: | March 2012 | | | The Way We Worked | | | | "The images . . . often reveal . . . how social forces such as immigration, gender, ethnicity, class, and technology have transformed the workforce." | | |
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| Category: | Economics | Published: | March 2012 | | | The Consequences Wrought by Greedy Financiers | | James W. Thomson | | "In terms of income inequality, the U.S. now lags behind most of Western Europe, while the nations that are closest to the U.S. are Russia (run by its oligarchs) and Iran (with its mullahs)." | | |
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| Category: | Political Landscape | Published: | March 2012 | | | State of the Disunion | | Jonathan W. Emord | | ". . . If the U.S. is to survive, recover, and prosper in the next half-decade, it must do so without [Pres. Barack] Obama, because it cannot do so with him." | | |
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| Category: | Psychology | Published: | March 2012 | | | Solving the Sociopath | | Vaishali | | "Shame is a physiological and emotional booby trap this predator has left behind. Do not step on it. Do not deploy it. Defuse, dismantle, and discard it." | | |
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| Category: | Life in America | Published: | March 2012 | | | Searching for a "New Feminism" | | Harvey C. Mansfield | | "The old feminism tries to overcome . . . Basic truth by compelling us to live under the aegis of gender neutrality. It sounds like liberation, but it is not." | | |
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| Category: | Science & Technology | Published: | March 2012 | | | How Science--Especially Physics--Has Lost Its Way | | Becky Brasfield | | ". . . Having the grandiosity to believe that one's positions on any given topic are 'incontrovertible' not only is completely absurd, it markes the beginning of the end of pure science." | | |
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| Category: | Law & Justice | Published: | March 2012 | | | How Free Market Principles Can Help to Fix a Broken System | | Stephen J. Schulhofer , David D. Friedman | | "A voucher system [would] provide indigent defendants with freedom of choice and . . . Attorneys with the same incentive to serve their clients that lawyers always have had when they represent those other than the poor." | | |
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| Category: | Life in America | Published: | March 2012 | | | Hitting Home: How the Runaway Explosion Haunts Adults | | Maureen Blaha | | ". . . We need to ensure our nation's at-risk kids have a fighting chance at safe and fulfilling lives as teenagers--and adults." | | |
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| Category: | American Thought | Published: | March 2012 | | | Herbert Hoover (not FDR) Is the Real Father of the New Deal | | Steven Horwitz | | ". . . The persistence of the Hoover myth [of a laissez faire presidency] continues to justify the counterproductive policies of the Obama Administration and thereby prevents markets from generating the economic recovery of which they are fully capable." | | |
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| Category: | Life in America | Published: | March 2012 | | | Have Baby Sitter Will Travel | | Candi Wingate | | "Clear, up-front communication before and during vacation lays the foundation for a wonderful journey for everyone." | | |
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| Category: | Literary Scene | Published: | March 2012 | | | It Always Comes Back to China--and America | | Alexander Scipio | | From the Middle Ages to today, Arabs have been unable to fight the superior forces, weaponry & discipline of the West. The countries of the East, on the other hand, have proven masterful at importing whatever technology is required to defeat any opponent. | | |
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| Category: | Mass Media | Published: | March 2012 | | | The Darker the Merrier | | Wes D. Gehring | | Dexter is a serial killer in a cable television program that evokes the best elements of cinima's persistent pursuit of black comedy. | | |
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