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  • Where Have All the Great Men Gone? (Not to Harvard)

    Where Have All the Great Men Gone? (Not to Harvard)0

    The other day, Harvard senior Julie Hartman wrote a brief tale in the Wall Street Journal about what has been happening on that revered campus since COVID landed its microscopic self on American shores. She and her classmates have been denied the norms of campus life, treated instead to mask-wearing, social distancing, and endless COVID

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  • Where Have All the Children Gone?

    Where Have All the Children Gone?0

    It’s summer vacation, but you might not know it from the absence of children on streets and sidewalks, in parks and public spaces. Just as afternoons and weekends during the school year are more void of children than ever before, so too is summertime. Where are all of these young ones? Increasingly, they are contained

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  • Where do your ‘rights’ come from?

    Where do your ‘rights’ come from?0

    Modern educators and politicians in America are quick to quote a short portion of the Declaration of Independence (1776): “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…” They usually won’t quote any more than that part believing it is a sufficient foundation or justification for their positions. From such a

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  • Where Did the Poets Go?

    Where Did the Poets Go?0

    The recent death of American poet John Ashbery sadly removed the last of his generation’s major poets. The current population of U.S. poets is now bereft of any truly significant figures — although there are many skillful writers of this hermetic yet important language art. How long Ashbery’s work will last is not clear. Mostly

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  • Where did Nazi doctors learn their ethics?

    Where did Nazi doctors learn their ethics?0

    German medicine under Hitler resulted in so many horrors – eugenics, human experimentation, forced sterilization, involuntary euthanasia, mass murder – that there is a temptation to say that “Nazi doctors had no ethics”. However, according to an article in the Annals of Internal Medicine by Florian Bruns and Tessa Chelouche (from Germany and Israel respectively),

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  • Where Did All Those ‘Capitalist Pigs’ Go?

    Where Did All Those ‘Capitalist Pigs’ Go?0

    “There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money,” is an insight the famed biographer James Boswell attributed to Samuel Johnson. Clients of the late Bernie Madoff, however, might take issue. Over four decades, Madoff, acclaimed as the greatest fraudster of them all, ran a Ponzi scheme

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