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  • Treading Wisely in Semantic Quicksand

    Treading Wisely in Semantic Quicksand16

    Be careful little mouth what you say. While this pithy little line originally formed part of a children’s song, it strikes me as increasingly wise counsel for adults navigating a dictionary full of fast-changing meanings. To be sure, the meaning of words has always been changing. Awful no longer means something deserving of awe or

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  • Traveling Backwards: Reparations and the Complications of History

    Traveling Backwards: Reparations and the Complications of History2

    Before the Civil War, several of my ancestors in Western Pennsylvania were staunch abolitionists. They participated in the Underground Railroad, helping escaped slaves from the South make the journey to freedom. During the War itself, several of these same ancestors, fought in that conflict. At least two of them died, along with several hundred thousand

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  • Travel in the Time of Corona

    Travel in the Time of Corona1

    It is Friday morning, March 13th, the first day of President Trump’s ban on most Europeans’ travel to the United States. Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla Airport is notably less busy than usual. The local news station reports the current tally at 9 a.m. Corona infections have reached 130,000 and caused 5,000 deaths in 114 countries thus

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  • Transgenderism Stems From Feminism’s Failure to Deal With Marilyn Monroe

    Transgenderism Stems From Feminism’s Failure to Deal With Marilyn Monroe1

    Had I told Democratic friends around the turn of the 21st century that in 2021 their party would insist that a biological man identifying as a woman should be treated as a woman in sports competitions, they would have laughed me under the table. Yet here’s Joe Biden, their man in the White House, claiming that

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  • Transgenderism is the Latest Woke Insult to Sports Fans

    Transgenderism is the Latest Woke Insult to Sports Fans0

    The effort to make sports unwatchable for most fans continues at light-speed. What started as a handful of radical NFL players kneeling during the national anthem transformed in the blink of an eye into an organized NFL-wide ceremonial genuflection to BLM. The woke virus quickly infected the NBA, too. Only the threat of revenue loss

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  • Transgender People Do Not Have a Right to Choose Their Bathroom

    Transgender People Do Not Have a Right to Choose Their Bathroom3

    Some college students today face a self-imposed dilemma unknown to our forebears: Which bathroom do I use? One example is Cecil, a student at the University of Alabama who believes that she is a man. Now, Cecil is afraid that Alabama’s laws and regulations may limit the freedom of that bathroom decision-making process. As reported

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