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- June 16, 2026






Poor Facebook. America’s adjudicator of public dialogue is unpopular with just about everyone these days. For those on the left, it was Frances Haugen’s leak about Facebook’s apparent lack of speech controls for Third World users. For those on the right, it was the leak of the company’s so-called “dangerous individuals and organizations” list. This latter
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Between Coronavirus and the unrest beginning in Minneapolis, another news story briefly reared its head: the confrontation between dog owner Amy Cooper and bird watcher Christian Cooper (who are not related). On social media, the story is being called #CentralParkKaren because of the “Karen” meme that refers to bossy white women. Coverage of #CentralParkKaren has
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It seems that words today change meanings every day. For instance, the words “man” and “woman” are now taken to mean a variety of mutually exclusive realities. What was clear and simple is now conflicting and confusing. How did we arrive here, why does it matter, and who is responsible? Enter French philosopher Jacques Derrida.
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Year after year, media note and sometimes bemoan the ballooning cost of higher education. There is no doubt that the human costs of this rise are severe: Some 44 million Americans currently carry nearly $1.5 trillion in student loan debt, and the delinquency rate is 11 percent. There are various reasons for surging costs,
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American Enterprise Institute scholar Mark Perry recently wrote about the impressive size of the University of Michigan’s diversity staff, which is nearly one hundred full-time employees. We noted that more than a quarter of these “diversicrats” earn annual salaries north of $100,000. The revelation generated a bit of a stir on Twitter. Not to be
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In his popular work Culture of Narcissism, Christopher Lasch wrote: To live for the moment is the prevailing passion—to live for yourself, not for your predecessors or posterity. We are fast losing the sense of historical continuity, the sense of belonging to a succession of generations originating in the past and stretching into the future.
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