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Left-wing scholars, particularly in academe, make lots of attention getting assertions. Regrettably, they usually offer little in the way of illuminating evidence. "In the midst of almost unimaginable horror in Puerto Rico, a bright light has shone on one of America's most unjustifiable and economically backward laws, the previously obscure Jones Act," Brink Lindsay and Steven Teles wrote on October 2, 2017 for Washington Monthly. "First created in the aftermath of World War I to buffer the impact of post-war demobilization, the Jones Act requires that all ships that carry cargo within the United States be built in America, with...

Here are a half dozen myths that circulate in higher education as well as in primary schools that only seem to get healthier with the retelling no matter how much the factual record stacks up against them: The military is on the march through America’s high schools. You can find the Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (JROTC) program in about 8 percent of American high schools, according to information provided by the U. S. Senate Armed Services Committee. The way that teacher union activists carp on this one, you would think that the junior-junior cadets were on the move in...