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  • A Co-op by Any Other Name …

    A Co-op by Any Other Name …3

    I was standing at the sink washing dishes and absentmindedly listening to NPR. We were in the pandemic. Most of what I heard on the radio sounded rehearsed. The same words used repeatedly, until suddenly there was something different: “learning pods.” I turned up the radio and leaned in to listen. The radio ladies were

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  • A Cloud Hangs Over Trans Medicine

    A Cloud Hangs Over Trans Medicine2

    Investigative journalism in Sweden has uncovered appalling abuses.

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  • A Closer Look at the States that Stayed Open

    A Closer Look at the States that Stayed Open0

    I’m sure we all remember that fateful month of March. One after another states began to issue lockdown orders, closing businesses, restricting travel, and ordering people to stay home. That was the month when the United States went from viewing COVID-19 as a minimal threat to issuing some of the most draconian lockdown measures in

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  • A Chinese Dissident’s Take on Breathing Free

    A Chinese Dissident’s Take on Breathing Free0

    A friend of mine recently relayed a conversation she had with a mutual friend of ours. This mutual friend grew up in China but emigrated to the United States to pursue higher education, and is now happily married, raising a family of her own, and living the American dream. When asked about the coronavirus, its

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  • A Chilling Description of Our World… from a 1981 Movie

    A Chilling Description of Our World… from a 1981 Movie1

    This weekend, the Facebook page Anonymous posted a short clip from the 1981 movie My Dinner with Andre that went viral. In the clip, one of the characters provides an absolutely chilling perspective on the world in 1981—one that in many ways applies to today, and has even perhaps been magnified. Here’s the clip below:  

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  • A Change in Sex Ed? Count Me In

    A Change in Sex Ed? Count Me In1

    As some readers may know, I’m an old guy, born during the middle of the Korean War. Which makes me a time machine.            Listen to me, and I can whisk you back to the late 1960s, when in high school we took biology and health classes. In biology we probably

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