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  • Waking Up in the Middle of the Night of Totalitarianism

    Waking Up in the Middle of the Night of Totalitarianism7

    Sometimes events converge in my life and explode into revelation. A few weeks ago, I edited an interview with Elizabeth Spalding, one of the founders and now the director of the Victims of Communism Museum in Washington, D.C. About this same time, I read Under a Cruel Star, Heda Kovály’s account of life in Czechoslovakia

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  • Waking Up in Dunderland

    Waking Up in Dunderland0

    Recently I stumbled across Alberto Manguel’s A Reader on Reading in my public library and brought the book home. As I skimmed the pages, I became aware that Manguel had used quotations from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass to introduce each of his chapters.            Over the last

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  • Waking Up During the Night Used to Be Normal

    Waking Up During the Night Used to Be Normal0

    For many people today, waking up in the middle of the night is incredibly frustrating, stressful, and is often labeled as insomnia. But apparently, for people in the past, it was part of their normal routine. As Business Insider reports (using excerpts from Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep), Virginia Tech historian Roger Ekrich

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  • Waiting for a Communist Superman

    Waiting for a Communist Superman0

    In the pursuit of a communist society, many Marxist-Leninist authors have written about the new kind of person who will create this society. This new human being will be a stark contrast to the kind of person that existed in a capitalist system. Once these capitalist chains are removed, mankind will soar to new heights,

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  • Wahlberg: ‘Out of Touch’ Celebs Should Shut Up About Politics

    Wahlberg: ‘Out of Touch’ Celebs Should Shut Up About Politics0

    It’s almost a rite of passage for Hollywood celebrities to tell people in flyover country how to think and for whom to vote. At least one A-list celebrity had a suggestion for them: stop doing that. In a recent interview, two-time Oscar nominee Mark Wahlberg made it clear he was not a fan of actors

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  • Voters Down Under Reject Woke Agenda

    Voters Down Under Reject Woke Agenda3

    Across the Western world, there is a brooding sense of inevitability about the triumph of wokeness. But what if that inevitability is overstated? Australia and New Zealand each held important electoral contests over the weekend, with voters in both nations rejecting woke ideas and woke politicians in spectacular fashion. First, New Zealand. The Land of

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