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  • A Reign of Error

    A Reign of Error0

    At the end of The Unheavenly City: The Nature and the Future of Our Urban Crisis (1968), Edward Banfield presents a prospect regarding race relations that seems to have been fulfilled since his tumultuous years and ours: a reign of error. Let me set the stage. America had become the wealthiest nation in the history

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  • A Recommended Reading List – from C.S. Lewis

    A Recommended Reading List – from C.S. Lewis0

    Over at the blog A Pilgrim in Narnia, Brenton Dickieson has done something kind of cool. He has taken C.S. Lewis’ book An Experiment in Criticism—in which Lewis attempts to answer the question “what makes a great book?”—and listed in chronological order all of the great books that Lewis references. The list serves not only

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  • A Recipe for Economic Recovery From COVID-19

    A Recipe for Economic Recovery From COVID-190

    With the focus on COVID-19 shifting from the health emergency (easing) to getting the economy going again (glimmers of hope), it’s easy to forget just how good the economy was before the pandemic hit. Recall that in mid-February, financial news organizations were reporting that the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite indexes were hitting record

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  • A Real Crisis Yields Real Politics

    A Real Crisis Yields Real Politics0

    So much of the news cycle and the telegraphed concerns of our commentariat are completely fake. Fake crises like “climate change,” a phone call with the leader of Ukraine, or whether someone used the wrong pronouns tend to dominate the news cycle. The recent Democratic presidential primary is a good example. At one point, the

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  • A Reading List to Drive the ‘Woke’ Crowd Crazy

    A Reading List to Drive the ‘Woke’ Crowd Crazy1

    At the beginning of the year, a couple of my coworkers challenged me to join the yearly book challenge on Goodreads. While I am still wrapping up a few of my selections, I’m on track to finish my goal, and it’s rewarding to see the finish line in sight. Having done this challenge, I took

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  • A Rational Checklist is No Match for Emotions in Matters of the Heart

    A Rational Checklist is No Match for Emotions in Matters of the Heart0

    For many people, there are few things more rewarding than crossing an item off a checklist. But what if the checklist is about your dream partner? And what if the checklist is wrong? “Relationshopping” is when you hunt for the perfect partner as if people were products. Online dating, now used by almost 40 percent

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