The first National Conservatism conferences drew students and intellectuals who felt marginalized by the Republican Party and dreamed about taking power.
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David Weigel,
semafor.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Noah Baumbach’s painfully incisive portrait of a family divorce among a remarkably prickly family of Brooklyn intellectuals finds so many ways to showcase its characters’ most brittle sides.
On a spring day in 1869, at a salon on one of Paris’s bustling boulevards, a group of prominent thinkers — including some of Pasteur’s close colleagues — discussed science’s future.
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Thomas Moynihan,
Big Think,
15 Sep. 2025
Northwestern Connecticut has historically been a place for free thinkers, celebrities seeking anonymity, writers and artists, and wealthy New Yorkers who are left cold by the splash and glamour of the Hamptons.
The campers come from all walks of life - lawyers, doctors, firemen, teachers, stock brokers - and need no previous musical experience.
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Jim Clash,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
Launched and operated by parents, teachers and community members, charter schools are funded by tax dollars and subject to regulation by the Department of Education.
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