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“‘Autonomous zone’ has armed guards, local businesses being threatened with extortion.“ That was quite a striking headline to behold. My immediate reaction was, “Oh my gosh, the Paris Commune is back!” Except that it wasn’t Paris, and it wasn’t 1871. It was Seattle, Washington, USA – today. According to multiple reports, radical protesters seized a six-block area
READ MOREParents the world over are dealing with massive adjustments in their children’s education that they could not have anticipated just three months ago. To one degree or another, pandemic-induced school closures are creating the “mass homeschooling” that FEE’s senior education fellow Kerry McDonald predicted two months ago. Who knows, with millions of youngsters absent from
READ MOREPerhaps it’s natural and understandable for most people to think that things like “leadership” and “character” are forged and evidenced in response to crisis. It’s quite apparent in the present moment that judgments about public figures are being shaped by how they’re handling the virus pandemic. Around the world, people are generally, if grudgingly, embracing
READ MOREOn June 1 of next year, the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, will mark the centennial of a catastrophe – an entirely man-made one. More specifically, an entirely thought-made one. It will be very painful to acknowledge. In its immediate aftermath, in fact, Tulsans of a few generations ago tried hard to ignore and forget it. But you
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