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  • Cartoonist Fired After Poke at Big Ag CEOs

    Cartoonist Fired After Poke at Big Ag CEOs0

    Rick Friday, the longtime cartoonist whose drawings had appeared in the Iowa-based publication Farm News for more than two decades, drew his final cartoon for the publication last week, he said. In a Facebook message posted April 30, Friday suggested he was fired because his cartoon “insulted” someone affiliated with one of the corporations mentioned

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  • Carol Burnett: ‘Cleverness’ in Entertainment is Becoming Extinct

    Carol Burnett: ‘Cleverness’ in Entertainment is Becoming Extinct0

    Over the weekend, famed comedienne Carol Burnett received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). Before receiving the award, Burnett gave a brief interview to The Hollywood Reporter, offering an interesting critique of the entertainment industry in the process: “Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey

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  • Carl Schmitt: The Philosopher of Conflict

    Carl Schmitt: The Philosopher of Conflict0

    Now to Heidegger’s friend and colleague Carl Schmitt, who had also attacked liberalism incessantly before the Nazi period, enthusiastically served the Nazi state, and then brooded after the defeat and spent decades developing and promulgating anti-libertarian thinking across the political spectrum. Carl Schmitt was a German legal theorist whose book, The Concept of the Political, came to

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  • Carl Sagan’s Final Warning on the Importance of Scientific Skepticism

    Carl Sagan’s Final Warning on the Importance of Scientific Skepticism8

    Shortly before he died, the astronomer Carl Sagan (1934-1996) offered a two-part warning in an interview with Charlie Rose. The first part of Sagan’s warning touched on humanity’s growing ignorance of science, which Sagan attributed largely to the failure of modern schools. Sagan saw this as a clear danger to humanity, especially in a society built

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  • Carl Sagan’s Eerie Prediction of America’s Future

    Carl Sagan’s Eerie Prediction of America’s Future0

    Carl Sagan died more than 20 years ago, but a prediction the American scientist and writer made shortly before his death could lead one to believe he caught a glimpse of a 2017 newspaper. While Sagan’s most famous work was the science fiction novel Contact, the inspiration for the 1997 film starring Jodie Foster, it’s

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  • Carl Sagan Warned Us About Government Schools Decades Ago

    Carl Sagan Warned Us About Government Schools Decades Ago10

    My wife and I recently met with the principal of the school our daughter attends to discuss her education future. My daughter, who turns 12 in a few days, wants to go to a different school in the fall, largely because many of her friends—who are a year ahead of her—are graduating to new schools.

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