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  • Asking the Hard Questions About ‘Climate Consensus’

    Asking the Hard Questions About ‘Climate Consensus’3

    Are we in the midst of a climate crisis? Broadly speaking, there are three answers to this question. Yes and we must decarbonize immediately. King Charles III delivered the keynote speech at the COP28 international climate conference organized by the United Nations last December. A confident and persuasive public speaker, Charles called for a “zero-carbon future”

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  • Asia’s Autocrats Are Calling, Mr. Biden

    Asia’s Autocrats Are Calling, Mr. Biden0

    While President Joe Biden was in Brussels and Warsaw showing U.S. solidarity with Ukraine, the 38-year-old autocrat who rules North Korea made a bold bid for the president’s attention. For the first time since 2017, Kim Jong Un test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, the Hwasong-17, the largest road-mobile missile ever launched. While it flew 600

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  • Ash Wednesday Faux Pas: ‘Professor, you’ve got dirt on your forehead.’

    Ash Wednesday Faux Pas: ‘Professor, you’ve got dirt on your forehead.’0

    Back in college, I worked the snack bar for a few years. As it was a very small, liberal arts college, there was only one. You met a lot of people, saw your friends, and served your professors. Aside from making milk shakes, I enjoyed the work. I’ll never forget one Wednesday when my literature

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  • As Traditional Religion Declines, Superstition—Not Atheism—Is the Big Winner0

    Psychologist Stuart Vyse raised an interesting question recently at the Skeptical Inquirer website, “Why Are Millennials Turning to Astrology?” He also examines the related question of why astrology has a stronger appeal for liberals/progressives than it does for conservatives. He describes interest in astrology as “surging at the moment” — although my own records trace

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  • As The Dark Night Rises

    As The Dark Night Rises0

    Back in 1968, the Rolling Stones imagined a world in which “every cop is a criminal, and all the sinners saints.” More than half a century after the release of “Sympathy of the Devil,” those lyrics are coming to life: The police are scourged, targeted, and de-funded, while convicts and low-lifes are hailed, released –

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  • As Kenosha and Minneapolis Burn, Millions of Americans Buy Guns

    As Kenosha and Minneapolis Burn, Millions of Americans Buy Guns0

    It’s increasingly clear to even the average American that if riots come to your neighborhood, you’re on your own. The message received is increasingly be this: if your plan is to wait until the police show up to provide “protection,” be prepared to wait a long time. Consequently, as violence appears to surge in America’s

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