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Olasky Books: Gnawing Senses of Conscience

Leo Damrosch’s Storyteller (Yale University Press, 2025) is a valentine to Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), whose life could have been co-designed by the novelist’s bipolar Jekyll and Hyde. Stevenson, best known for Treasure Island, combined a strict Scottish Presbyterian upbringing with a love of South Seas sensuousness. Damrosch describes how Stevenson rebelled against Christianity but “a gnawing sense of conscience Read More ›

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A homeless man in winter clothing sits on snowy pavement against a wall, holding a cup, with bags and snow surrounding him
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More Spending, More Suffering: The Failure of America’s Homelessness Policy

In a recent ruling that defies both logic and compassion, a federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's effort to reform the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Continuum of Care program — the federal government's primary funding mechanism for homelessness assistance. Read More ›
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Man filling up gas in his car
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Here Comes $10 Gasoline

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A homeless encampment sits on a street in Downtown Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Lawsuits Delay Homeless Reforms and Leave People on the Streets

Even as many volunteers are taking to the cold streets to try to find and quantify the number of homeless Americans living there now, two lawsuits filed late last year in a federal District Court are blocking millions of dollars from reaching the neediest people. The first lawsuit was filed by the National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH), and the second by a coalition led by Washington State’s Attorney General Nick Brown. Read More ›
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Young beautiful hispanic woman visiting art gallery at Belvedere Palace in Vienna
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Humans Create, AI Amalgamates. Here’s Why It Matters

Generative artificial intelligence is all the rage these days. We're using it at work to guide our coding, writing and researching. We're conjuring AI videos and songs. We're enhancing old family photos. We're getting AI-powered therapy, advice and even romance. It sure looks and sounds like AI can create, and the output is remarkable. Read More ›
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White House Invites Keri D. Ingraham to Important School Choice Roundtable

As part of National School Choice Week, the White House hosted an important school choice roundtable event today with U.S. Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon. Discovery Institute Senior Fellow and American Center for Transforming Education Director Keri Ingraham was in attendance. Read More ›
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Female doctor giving encouragement to elderly patient by holding her hands
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We Need to Save the Hospice Movement

Hospice care has become so ubiquitous that most readers probably have some experience of the beneficent services it offers. Both my parents died while in hospice care, and their experiences—as I will relate briefly below—were nothing but exemplary. But now the hospice movement has run into serious trouble. Read More ›