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  • ‘Rule by Experts’ Is Tyranny Shrouded in Science

    ‘Rule by Experts’ Is Tyranny Shrouded in Science2

    “You don’t need a mask.” “Everyone needs to wear a mask.” “Asymptomatic spreaders are the real problem.” “No wait, it doesn’t look like asymptomatic carriers are spreading it.” “Coronavirus will spread at protests… unless they’re protests over the death of George Floyd.” Expert advice has ping-ponged on COVID-19 like a bead in a pinball machine.

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  • ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is not a Romance

    ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is not a Romance0

    Romeo and Juliet is not the only Shakespeare play that the modern world, modern critics and modern teachers get wrong. Truth be told, Shakespeare abuse is rampant. Just about every play is being mistaught and misrepresented. Romeo and Juliet is, however, taught more often than most, probably more often than any other of the Bard’s

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  • ‘Reddy’ or Not, Winter Is Coming

    ‘Reddy’ or Not, Winter Is Coming1

    Can you imagine scanning the skies, seeing it’s a calm, overcast day, and then realizing you’re in danger? That is the energy world environmentalists are pushing us into. The looming threat of a dull day is something warned about in a new report from the Colorado Public Utilities Commission. It’s what would critically disrupt an

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  • ‘Red Dawn’: A Movie for Our Time

    ‘Red Dawn’: A Movie for Our Time0

    The other day I was revisiting the 1984 flick Red Dawn when I had one of those revelations that leave me feeling a bit stupid and more than a bit stunned.            The film’s storyline is pretty simple: It’s the Cold War, and Russia, Cuba, and Nicaragua launch an attack on

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  • ‘Race, Class, Gender’—The Left Now Only Has 2 of the 3

    ‘Race, Class, Gender’—The Left Now Only Has 2 of the 30

    “Race, class, gender.” For more than a generation now, the academic left has relied on these as hermeneutical keys for interpreting just about everything. I recall the great historian of Victorian England Gertrude Himmelfarb, speaking wryly at a 1980’s convention of the American Historical Association: “Professors might as well create a keyboard shortcut for the

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  • ‘Preaching to the Choir’: A New Theory on Why American Politics are So Polarized

    ‘Preaching to the Choir’: A New Theory on Why American Politics are So Polarized0

    There is an enormous body of research out there that explores why modern American politics are so polarized. It’s also a question many Americans are asking. (The question comes up second on Google if one types in “Why is American politics…”.) There are many good theories out there. Bill Bishop’s “big sort” hypothesis suggests Americans

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