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  • The Sad Death of ‘All Politics is Local’

    The Sad Death of ‘All Politics is Local’0

    Even before Justice Anthony Kennedy’s blockbuster announcement that he would be retiring from the Supreme Court, it looked like the 2018 midterms would probably serve a nationalized referendum on Donald Trump. Against the backdrop of the migrant child-detention facilities controversy earlier this summer, and the contentious process to replace Kennedy with Brett Kavanaugh, the “Second

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  • The Sacralization of Black Lives Matter

    The Sacralization of Black Lives Matter0

    Perhaps I’m going crazy, but I thought I just heard NBC News and other respected information sources report that the recent burning of two Black Lives Matter (BLM) signs is being investigated as “potential hate crimes” by the Washington, D.C. police. Apparently these alleged hate crimes occurred as BLM and its sister organization (or rather,

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  • The Ruling Class Strikes Back

    The Ruling Class Strikes Back0

    “There is no proletarian,” wrote Oswald Spengler, “not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money – and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.” What the German prophet of pessimism meant was that revolutions

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  • The Rules of Debate No Longer Work

    The Rules of Debate No Longer Work0

    Gun rights activist Dana Loesch recently complained that she had been denied the right to respond to her critics on Twitter, according to a story reported in the New York Post. Unlike her adversaries, who are free to swing away at her, Loesch is not allowed to use Twitter’s fact-checking platform to correct their misstatements.

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  • The Rule of Our Sophisticated Suckers

    The Rule of Our Sophisticated Suckers0

    “There’s a sucker born every minute,” said P. T. Barnum, expressing, without intending it, the soul of modernist movements in the arts. Donald Trump recently outraged what has been called, without any sense of irony or hyperbole, “the architectural community,” with a directive preferring the federal style for new public buildings in Washington, D.C. That

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  • The Rosy—and False—Narrative of American Public Schooling

    The Rosy—and False—Narrative of American Public Schooling0

    Humans tend to romanticize the past. In many ways it helps us see the good in what has been and what is now, but in other ways it disguises the truth. The history of American public schooling is a notable example of viewing history through rose-colored glasses. In my college and graduate school education classes,

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