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China’s Impossible Environmental Dilemma
China’s pollution problem has eclipsed the allegations of its human rights violation. In recent years, the international community has harshly criticized China’s worsening pollution and overuse of fossil fuel. It is of no doubt that China’s enormous carbon footprint and industrial pollution heavily strain the environment. Yet, contrary to what many would believe, this current…
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Standarized Testing and Public Education
In recent decades, the United States has shifted its approach to schooling to incorporate neoliberal ideals. Traditionally, schools were regulated and funded by local governments. More recently, federal and state governments devoted programming and funding to efforts to reduce educational inequality caused by differences across communities such as income and tax revenue. However, rather than…
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The Dismal Science
BY NAHUEL FEFER In 1931, John Maynard Keynes observed that, “If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.” If anything, however, the public’s regard for economics has fallen since the days of Keynes, and economists have no one to blame but…
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The Concern with Energy Apathy
BY ALEXANDER BEAULIEU I believe the earth gets warmer and I also believe the earth gets cooler. And I think history points out that it does that and that the idea that man, through the production of CO2 is somehow responsible for climate change is, I think, just patently absurd. -Rick Santorum I think there…
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The Duty of Any Nation
Cato the Elder was a Roman Senator during the Third Punic War who was known for his hawkish views on Carthage. Our Cato, a Washington University student, holds that force is a valid expression of American policy and intends to explore American policy in the Middle East and why our involvement there is justified. Cato…
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The Great Truth of 1726–A Review Essay
“What neither is, nor was, nor e’er shall be?” — Elphinston “The usefulness of an opinion is itself matter of opinion.” — John Stuart Mill The solemn Irish thinker, Mr. Jonathan Swift, was indeed a remarkable man. In his thoughtful and elegant book, Gulliver’s Travels, Dean Swift presented us with what remains a very…
