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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy, that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
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People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York — a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children.
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Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
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To the long list of American institutions that have withered since the dawn of the 1980s — journalism, organized labor, mainline Protestantism, small-town merchants — it may be time to add another: college-level humanities.
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Obamacare is the biggest job-killer in this country and when Jason put on his hockey mask and swung that machete, boy there was carnage like nothing else
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I’m going to adjust my education curriculum to what business and commerce needs . . . If you want to take gender studies that’s fine. Go to a private school and take it.
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The folly of studying, say, English Lit has become something of an Internet cliché — the stuff of sneering ‘Worst Majors’ listicles that seem always to be sponsored by personal-finance websites.
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