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  • The COVID Vaccine Is a Product of Systemic Racism

    The COVID Vaccine Is a Product of Systemic Racism0

    (This op-ed is written by a politically correct analyst, who will remain anonymous, but brought to you by Walter E. Block.) I cannot in good conscience take the COVID vaccine. Why not? Because its producers are mainly toxic white males.  We wokesters want a COVID vaccine created in a more inclusive manner. Yes, yes, we

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  • The Courage to Dissent…From the Left

    The Courage to Dissent…From the Left1

    As the COVID-19 pandemic moves into endemic mode throughout the world, we need serious introspection upon and analysis of the public health response. The unprecedented public health response to the pandemic; lockdowns, the censorship by Big Tech of dissenting medical voices and treatment options along with conflicting views on masking, vaccine, school closures, and social-distancing

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  • The Counter-Repudiation That’s on the Way

    The Counter-Repudiation That’s on the Way8

    Philosopher, writer, and teacher Roger Scruton labeled our age “the culture of repudiation” in his 1998 book An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Modern Culture. Though I am oversimplifying here, his basic premise was that academics and other influential writers and thinkers had given up defending, much less advancing, Western thought and culture. Many, in fact,

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  • The Costs of Presidential Candor

    The Costs of Presidential Candor0

    • November 26, 2018

    Predictably, Donald Trump was attacked both by the establishment and the media as “crude,” “unpresidential,” and “gratuitous” for a recent series of blunt and graphic statements on a variety of current policies. Oddly, the implied charge this time around was not that Trump makes up stuff, but that he said things that were factual but

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  • The Cost of Intellectualism

    The Cost of Intellectualism7

    After a full semester of furiously studying philosophy, obsessing over essays, and panically preparing for my part in my university’s theology conference, I happened to pick up Thomas à Kempis’ devotional book, The Imitation of Christ. The experience was a substantive one in many ways—I learned more about what à Kempis thought, encountered his analytical

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  • The Cost of Female Empowerment

    The Cost of Female Empowerment0

    The 2018 election achieved the height of female empowerment as women of all backgrounds gained seats in the nation’s legislatures. Young mothers made up a sizeable chunk of this group. In the U.S. Congress, the number of young moms “nearly doubled” with the influx of the new recruits. But Congress isn’t the only governing body

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