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  • The Politicization of Everything

    The Politicization of Everything0

    What do Anheuser-Busch InBev, Grubhub, New Balance, Kellogg’s, and the HGTV show Fixer Upper have in common? On the surface, not a whole lot—except that, over the past several weeks, each one has been the subject of a political controversy. On October 28th, Adweek reported that Anheuser-Busch InBev was ending its parodic “Bud Light Party” commercials “a little earlier than

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  • The Politicization of COVID-19 Treatments

    The Politicization of COVID-19 Treatments0

    The word has leaked out on a potential cheap treatment for COVID-19, the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). Worried Medicaid patients in an urban emergency room are reportedly asking doctors for “dat Klorokine pill.” Meanwhile, highly educated persons are quoting media reports that HCQ is very dangerous because it can trigger fatal heart rhythms. Governors and

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  • The Politically Incorrect Reality About What Boosts Kids’ Chances for Success

    The Politically Incorrect Reality About What Boosts Kids’ Chances for Success5

    If you want to increase access to the American dream, there’s one simple trick. But there’s a catch: It’s not a very politically correct reality. Simply put, to optimize any kid’s chance at success, he needs to grow up with married parents. A new book, “The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind,”

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  • The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization

    The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization0

    Christianity. Judaism. Dead white males. Old-fashioned morality. The traditional family. Tradition itself. These are the bêtes noires of the elites. They are the pillars of political incorrectness. Together, they constitute that thing called Western civilization. Political correctness, at its heart, is the effort to dissolve the foundation on which American and European culture has been built. It

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  • The Polish Midwife Who Delivered 3,000 Babies at Auschwitz

    The Polish Midwife Who Delivered 3,000 Babies at Auschwitz3

    Fifty years ago died one of the most remarkable women of the 20th century. You have probably never heard of Stanisława Leszczyńska. Few people have. Yet she was a model of heroism and humanity who should be acclaimed around the globe. Stanisława was a Polish midwife who worked for two years in the maternity ward

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  • The Plague of Presentism

    The Plague of Presentism12

    Presentism: Now there’s one ugly duckling of a word. My online dictionary defines presentism as “uncritical adherence to present-day attitudes, especially the tendency to interpret past events in terms of modern values and concepts.” To my surprise, the 40-year-old dictionary on my shelf also contains this eyesore of a word and definition. To be present,

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