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The Power of Victimhood - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Liberals are starting to come around to the idea that teaching young people to be victims is counterproductive and, worse, actively harmful to mental health and the culture at large. Jonathan Haidt writes a long piece at his Substack, and...

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Facing Tyranny, ‘What Should Free Men Do?’

In the movie 300, a fictional version of the very real Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., Sparta’s King Leonidas found himself in a conundrum.  It’s the same conundrum that

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Equality in Freedom or Equality in Slavery?

A distinguished visitor to America in its formative years had much to say about democracy and socialism.