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  • Claim: Evolution Can’t Account for Man’s Speech

    Claim: Evolution Can’t Account for Man’s Speech0

    Thank God for Tom Wolfe.  He’s been coming forth with the right sort of right stuff for better than a half century, and he’s still at it. Or maybe it should be “chundering” forth. The verb of choice is Wolfe’s, who has allegedly scholarly papers chundering forth all over the place in this short book.

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  • Civilization or Barbarism? This Time the Choice Is Clear.

    Civilization or Barbarism? This Time the Choice Is Clear.7

    The attack launched by Hamas on Israel—the brutal slaughter of men, women, and children, and the degradations which followed some of those murders—sickened many of us who watched the videos and read the reports about the horrors committed by these savages. Not everyone shared our revulsion. In Tehran, mobs and politicians celebrated the atrocities with

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  • Civilization Is Permanence, Barbarism Is Instability

    Civilization Is Permanence, Barbarism Is Instability6

    In Part 1 of his 1969 documentary series on the history of Western art, Kenneth Clark defines civilization in a rather illuminating manner: Civilization means something more than energy and will and creative power, something the early Norsemen hadn’t got, but which, even in their time, was beginning to reappear in Western Europe. How can

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  • Civility in Politics Is Harder Than You Think

    Civility in Politics Is Harder Than You Think0

    When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tore up the text of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech in full public view, her supporters saw defiance of both his policies and his earlier refusal to shake her hand. But her political opponents cried foul, calling it “unbecoming” and “nasty.” This is yet another example of

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  • Civil Disobedience, Homestyle

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    I committed an act of civil disobedience the other night. I threw open the dining room window, plopped down at the piano beneath it, and with the family gathered around, flipped open the hymn book and began singing. Starting with “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” my family and I soon moved on to “The Star-Spangled

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  • Civil Disobedience Over Lockdowns Spreads Across America

    Civil Disobedience Over Lockdowns Spreads Across America0

    Colorado officials last week announced that several counties had moved into the “red level”—the second-highest measurement on its COVID-19 dial—and would be forced to implement new regulations on restaurants, gyms, and other parts of the economy to combat the virus. Then something remarkable happened. Weld County, a county in the northern part of the state

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