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  • Is Covidocracy Making a Comeback?

    Is Covidocracy Making a Comeback?0

    On September 6, the White House announced that twice-vaccinated, twice-boosted Jill Biden has COVID-19—for a second time. President Joe Biden tested negative but will begin masking again, the administration also confirmed. A day later, co-host of The View Whoopi Goldberg was missing from the show, having also come down with the virus. Coinciding with these

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  • Is COVID-19 Relief Encouraging People Not to Work? Dems Say, ‘No Evidence.’

    Is COVID-19 Relief Encouraging People Not to Work? Dems Say, ‘No Evidence.’0

    “Experts” predicted 1 million jobs would be created in April. The actual number fell far short, at 266,000. Republicans warned that overly generous COVID-19 relief benefits create a disincentive to work. The day before this disappointing jobs report, Bloomberg wrote: In earnings calls and business surveys, executives often blame stimulus checks and generous unemployment benefits

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  • Is Contentment Possible in the Midst of Calamity?

    Is Contentment Possible in the Midst of Calamity?0

    Chesterton, the multi-biographer, intended to write many more biographies than he did. One of his intended subjects was the 15th century Dominican friar, Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498). The grandson of a wealthy Florentine physician, Savonarola abandoned his own plans for a medical career to become a “knight of Christ” at 22. Thus began what would become a

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  • Is Contemporary Liberalism Creating a Soulless Monoculture?

    Is Contemporary Liberalism Creating a Soulless Monoculture?0

    I was once called a “cracker” by a member of the Nation of Islam. It was in the mid-1980s and I was driving through Washington, D.C., in the kind of neighborhood that conservatives call dangerous and liberals call “transitioning.” I saw a member of the Nation of Islam, bow tie and all, on the corner

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  • Is conspicuous consumption the cause of plummeting birth rates?

    Is conspicuous consumption the cause of plummeting birth rates?0

    Keeping up with the Jones can drive families into debt and make them envious and miserable. But it could also be an important driver of low fertility rates, according to a mathematical model developed by anthropologists and published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. “The areas were we see the greatest declines in

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  • Is Complaining about Society a Waste of Time?

    Is Complaining about Society a Waste of Time?0

    There are a growing number of conservatives who, similar to their progressive counterparts, have identified capitalism as the source of a great many evils in modern society. As the argument goes, unchecked freedom in the economic realm has led to unchecked freedom in the ethical realm; laissez-faire capitalism has laid the groundwork for the decline

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