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  • What We’re In For with Trump

    What We’re In For with Trump0

    I happened to catch most of Trump’s conference with business leaders this morning over breakfast. Here are my thoughts. If I’m being a typical Midwesterner/Rust Belter on this, apologies in advance; I can’t help where I’m from. Trump’s speech can be divided into four parts of roughly equal size. 25% of the things he said

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  • What We Wear Impacts Who We Are

    What We Wear Impacts Who We Are15

    Last week a young friend suggested lunch at a nearby café. I politely declined. Seeing her surprise, I explained that I’d eaten there once and wasn’t impressed with the food. But it was more than the mediocre dish they’d served. It was the owner of the establishment, who doubles as manager and chef. “The way

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  • What We Sacrifice in the Pursuit of Immortality

    What We Sacrifice in the Pursuit of Immortality0

    “Is the first person who will live to 150 alive today?” asked a recent Wall Street Journal article. The piece features biology Professor Steven Austad who contends that “today’s college students… can expect to live a century or more because their health will be unlike anything seen before in human history.” I had to suppress

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  • What We Misunderstand About the Nazis

    What We Misunderstand About the Nazis8

    In his insightful essay “We Misunderstood the Nazis” in The Free Press, Matti Friedman argues that the way we learn about the Holocaust has done little to prevent its reoccurrence. Thanks to billion-dollar investments in museums, documentaries, and school curricula, Westerners know all about the “logistics” of National Socialism: Zyklon B, death marches, cruel torture.

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  • What We Lost in the War on COVID

    What We Lost in the War on COVID2

    The news cycle moves so quickly these days that we can forget to dwell on major events. But tyranny thrives on a short attention span. Just a couple of years ago, we witnessed government dictates turn the entire world into a highly regimented military encampment. A Military Response: The Role of the National Security Council

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  • What We Lose With Our Attention Spans

    What We Lose With Our Attention Spans5

    Shakespeare’s plays were considered popular entertainment when he first wrote and staged them in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Often today, the name Shakespeare carries certain high-brow or elitist connotations, but in his own time, Shakespeare wrote for everyone, from the aristocrats of Elizabeth’s court to the tradesmen who took an afternoon off

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