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How a Working Mother Overcame Tragedy to Build a Legacy in Health Care and Philanthropy

Complaining about the news is a well-worn, bipartisan pastime. We may disagree on what constitutes “bad news,” but everyone can agree there’s way too much of it these days. And yet the Internet Age is...

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The Seven Criteria for Project Selection

Deciding which creative projects to attempt is an incredibly difficult job, both as an artist and as any kind of executive producer. We live in a world of infinite creative ideas but painfully finite ...

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10 Solutions to Intergenerational Poverty

From time to time, I see lists on the internet that propose to solve the problems of intergenerational poverty in America. Unfortunately, most of the time, these lists recommend massive transfers of w...

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Harry Potter and the Economic Segregation of Muggles

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (or Philosopher’s Stone, if you’re British) became the most popular thing of all time in 1997, just in time for high-school me to think that anything everyone els...

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Valerian and the City of Red Tape

Today on Out of Frame, I’m going to talk about Luc Besson’s new $200 million blockbuster, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets , or (more accurately), the fantastic and highly influential Frenc...

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Don’t Be PC, Be Polite

As someone who fights on the side of free speech, I’m the first to tell ya, we do have a tendency to strawman political correctness. You may have heard things like “them snowflakes just don’t like bei...

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Jordan B. Peterson Isn’t Criticizing Women When He Discusses “Agreeableness”

I have a general observation about critics of Jordan Peterson that’s been growing for a few months. It seems to me that the most common objections to things that he says (yes, usually taken way out of...

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The Danger in Media Telling Only Half the Story on Political Violence

In the last few months, we’ve seen numerous acts of politically motivated or targeted violence. Some of these cases have been plastered all over the news for days or weeks. Some others have been met w...

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Learn How to Launch Your Creative Arts Career at FEEcon 2018

Over the last 15 years, I’ve worked in various creative fields, starting as an assistant music supervisor on major advertising campaigns in New York City, then as a composer and music editor in Los An...

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The Dangerous Idea of the Greater Good

[Note: This article contains major spoilers for the motion picture Hot Fuzz .] Edgar Wright’s Hot Fuzz is one the greatest comedy films ever made. Not only is it a brilliant send-up of classic action ...

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Young Minds Are Undermined by Today’s Fashionable Philosophies

Rates of teenage depression and suicide in America are rising. Attempts to explain this increase have centered around ideas that are now pervasive in academia and entertainment media: identity politic...

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Health Care Is a Mess… But Why?

You probably know a couple who both work full time to support their children, but even with their dual incomes, they’re finding it more and more difficult to afford health insurance. Everyday incident...

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Can You Handle Diversity in Ideas?

Since I was a little kid, I’ve always loved politics. A few days after I first learned where my family stood on the most pressing issues of the day, I asked my mother a simple question: Lil Seamus: “M...

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The Power of Making Friends with Ideological Enemies

“How can people hate me, when they don’t even know me?” This is the question that drives the subject of a fantastic new documentary on Netflix called “Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race, and Ameri...

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UK Considering Legislation That Would Imprison Internet Trolls

If you ever need a reminder of how important freedom of speech is, all you need to do is look across the pond. The United Kingdom, which doesn’t have a First Amendment, has slowly seen citizens’ free ...

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Hate Speech Laws: The Best Arguments for Them—and Against Them

What is hate speech, and why is it so controversial? Hate speech is tricky to define (more on that later), but a workable definition is: “ Any form of expression through which speakers intend to vilif...

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Isaac Schick - FEE

Isaac Schick Isaac Schick is a policy analyst at the American Consumer Institute, a nonprofit education and research organization. Development of Robot Lawnmowers Will Be Delayed Thanks to New Antitru...

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The Opponents of Free Speech Are Gaining Ground. Here’s How We Can Fight Back

Free speech used to be held up as one of the core American institutions. It was enshrined in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights for a reason: while other countries have also adopted free speech...

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What Is Section 230 and How Is It Different Than the First Amendment?

The ongoing negotiation by Elon Musk to purchase Twitter has reignited the debate around free speech on the Internet. In the US, the First Amendment and Section 230 of the Communications Act are centr...

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Yes, Section 230 Allows Social Media Platforms to Moderate Content Subjectively

Recently the Supreme Court avoided deciding on where the limits of Section 230 were concerning content algorithms. Many have interpreted this as a positive sign that Section 230 will continue to prote...

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