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  • Two Atheists, Two Films, and Their Call to Virtue

    Two Atheists, Two Films, and Their Call to Virtue1

    The 1966 movie A Man for All Seasons depicts the Lord Chancellor of England Thomas More (Paul Scofield) in his final years when he opposed Henry VIII’s divorce and refused to take the oath declaring Henry the supreme head of the Church of England. The king imprisoned More in the Tower of London. Tried in

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  • Two and Two Now Equal Five

    Two and Two Now Equal Five0

    A few years ago, I thought it was time to retire George Orwell’s 1984 to the attic. My years of teaching literature convinced me that Huxley’s Brave New World was more likely to unfold: a world in which an elite might control the rest of us through the erasure of history and literature, but who

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  • Twitter’s COVID Propaganda Campaign

    Twitter’s COVID Propaganda Campaign0

    If you want a glimpse of modern propaganda at work, you need look no further than the trends that grace the Twitter sidebar. I started watching them more seriously a few months ago when some of the headlines about COVID-related issues sounded far more certain—or perhaps arrogant is the better word—than it seemed they plausibly

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  • Twitter Suspends Another Conservative Commentator

    Twitter Suspends Another Conservative Commentator0

    Twitter has suspended the account of filmmaker James O’Keefe, founder of Project Veritas. Late last night, our organization received this message: About an hour ago, the Twitter Corporation decided to silence me and suspended my account. No notice, no warning, I just received a terse message that I had “violated” their rules. This is devastating

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  • Twitter Removed My Blue Checkmark After I Took My Husband’s Last Name. Here’s How I Got It Back.

    Twitter Removed My Blue Checkmark After I Took My Husband’s Last Name. Here’s How I Got It Back.0

    After getting married, the decision to take on my husband’s last name was a difficult one. In addition to the financial cost and social awkwardness of changing your identity, the process is so labor-intensive that there’s an app for that. Seriously. For $99, you can “change your name in minutes” on HitchSwitch, a concierge service

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  • Twitter Princess

    Twitter Princess0

    The Republic is in crisis. America’s intellectual class is working to discredit our past. The media is waging war against the middle-class values of hard work, religion, and family. In order not to be outdone, Hollywood’s message is more violence, vulgarity, and unbridled hedonism. So, as the ship is starting to list, why would I write

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