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Should Politicians Have to Pass Competence Tests? (Your Radical Questions with David Runciman)

David Runciman, podcaster and former politics Professor, answers Your Radical Questions. In the main episode, David argued that lowering the voting age to six is a true expression of universal suffrage and could help reinvigorate our stagnant democracy. Now, our listeners challenge him on whether kids would just vote how their parents tell them, and whether there’s any evidence or precedent to support his radical proposal. Plus, should knowledge and competence be rewarded in our democratic sy...

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Trump’s Successful Campaign Against DEI

On the first and second days of his second term as president of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump issued two Executive Orders, “Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing” on January 20, and “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” on January 21. These two directives serve as a watershed […] The post Trump’s Successful Campaign Against DEI appeared first on The American Conservative

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