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• Hipster Communities, Tradition...
  By Mark T. Mitchell | Jun 18
  
  

  The Washington Times has a piece by Ryan James Girdusky suggesting that traditionalist conservatives have something to learn from hipsters. And vice versa.
  Traditionalist conservatives…

• Rand Paul in The New Republic
  By Mark T. Mitchell | Jun 17
  
  

  The New Republic has a cover story on Rand Paul. The author takes it upon herself to 1) show how quickly Paul is becoming a…

• Privacy? What Privacy?
  By Mark T. Mitchell | Jun 7
  
  

  Is there such thing as a private email? Are there limits to what the government can access? From The Washington Post:
  The National Security Agency…

• The Cost of Community
  By Mark T. Mitchell | Jun 7
  
  

  Community isn’t easy:
  In college I took political theory classes that routinely covered the subject of community. The classes even emphasized our era’s tragic shortage…

• Kirkpatrick Sale on Nullificat...
  By Mark T. Mitchell | Jun 6
  
  

  TAC has a review by Sale that champions nullification and (perhaps) secession.
  Nullification acts have been introduced in state legislatures all across the country, particularly…

• Energy Use and Mediated Desire
  By Jason Peters | Jun 6
  
  

  In this brief and fairly interesting TED talk Alex Laskey suggests that social, not material, science can help us save energy–and therefore money (and maybe,…