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  • George Orwell Knew We’d Buy the Screens That Are Used Against Us

    George Orwell Knew We’d Buy the Screens That Are Used Against Us0

    Sales of George Orwell’s utopian novel 1984 (1949) have spiked twice recently, both times in response to political events. In early 2017, the idea of ‘alternative facts’ called to mind Winston Smith, the book’s protagonist and, as a clerk in the Ministry of Truth, a professional alternator of facts. And in 2013, the US National

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  • George Floyd Reveals the Bankruptcy of the Elites

    George Floyd Reveals the Bankruptcy of the Elites0

    The protests, looting, and fires which have rocked the city of Minneapolis after the tragic death of George Floyd are yet another illustration of the comprehensive failure of our leading institutions, which seem incompetent and unprepared to handle society’s widespread anger and alienation. The concurrent rise of nationalism, socialism, and populism during the twentieth-first century increasingly resembles a tragic recapitulation of the nineteenth. Institutions are

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  • George Bernard Shaw Was so Enamored with Socialism He Advocated Genocide to Advance It

    George Bernard Shaw Was so Enamored with Socialism He Advocated Genocide to Advance It0

    In an excerpt from her recently published book Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism, Kristen Ghodsee freely quotes from the works of the playwright and Fabian Socialist George Bernard Shaw to bolster her argument that capitalism is inherently sexist. The free market forces women to be reliant upon men, wrote Shaw, turning sex into a virtual bribe for financial

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  • Geniuses Possess This One Common Trait

    Geniuses Possess This One Common Trait0

    James Gleick has written about some of the most distinguished minds in history. As a former science reporter at the New York Times, he profiled some of the most brilliant people in the world. He’s written biographies of Isaac Newton and Richard Feyman. His most recent book—The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood—examined the

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  • Genghis Khan vs. the Canceled West

    Genghis Khan vs. the Canceled West0

    It seems the legacies of historical figures like Christopher Columbus and Thomas Jefferson can’t be discussed without activists arguing that they were problematic characters. Such figures are not judged as products of their time but as villains in the woke creed. And because of their villainous reputation, we are also not allowed to appreciate their

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  • Genetics—Not Fancy Schools—Largely Determine Academic Success, Study Finds

    Genetics—Not Fancy Schools—Largely Determine Academic Success, Study Finds0

    Late last week, an article in the U.K. Telegraph caught my eye. It reported on a new study which found that selective grammar schools – akin to what the U.S. might refer to as college-prep schools – aren’t necessarily the key to producing smart kids. The thing that does produce smart, academically successful kids is

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