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  • Using Statistics to Get Your Way in Politics

    Using Statistics to Get Your Way in Politics0

    It is unlikely that pundits, politicians, and the general public have ever been so obsessed with numbers as they are right now. I speak, of course, of the numbers surrounding deaths and illnesses attributed to COVID-19. For months now, every new day has brought new headlines about total COVID-19 infections, total deaths, and estimates put

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  • Using Diversity for Personal Gain

    Using Diversity for Personal Gain0

    Identity Capitalists: The Powerful Insiders Who Exploit Diversity to Maintain Inequality, by Nancy Leong (Stanford University Press; 240 pp., $28.00). Nancy Leong recounts her chagrin at a friend’s wedding to start her jaundiced polemic, Identity Capitalists. The tipsy bride, gushing with thanks for Leong’s attendance, hugged her before joking indelicately, “I mean if you hadn’t been

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  • Using Campuses as Illegal Immigration Sanctuaries is a Bad Idea

    Using Campuses as Illegal Immigration Sanctuaries is a Bad Idea0

    On Nov. 16, thousands of students at public and private universities across the country walked out of classes to protest the election of Donald Trump to the presidency. One of their main goals was to urge college officials to declare their campuses as “sanctuaries” for illegal immigrants—a controversial move that could start a political battle

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  • Users of UK Parenting Website Revolt Against Transgenderism

    Users of UK Parenting Website Revolt Against Transgenderism0

    A rebellion against transgenderism has broken out on the hugely popular British parenting website Mumsnet after some users were banned for “misgendering” and “transphobia” in referring to certain persons, it seems. Starting Thursday evening UK time the “I am Spartacus” thread has attracted more than 800 posts, all but a handful rejecting the idea of

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  • Useful Idiots on the Right: The Never Trumpers

    Useful Idiots on the Right: The Never Trumpers7

    It’s been over five years now since Donald Trump surprised many by winning the 2016 presidential election. Yet in many ways, the hate for him—especially in his own party—has never seemed stronger. One could perhaps have excused Republicans for detesting him back in 2016. He was, after all, an unknown quantity, an outsider of questionable

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  • Used Bookstores Experiencing a Revival

    Used Bookstores Experiencing a Revival0

    Think Amazon is taking over the world? Think again, says Mike Rosenwald in a recent article for The Washington Post. According to Rosenwald, used book stores are experiencing a revival largely due to cheap prices and a desire for hard, material copies rather than digital books. Such news should not be a surprise, particularly as

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