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  • The Barbarians are Behind the Walls

    The Barbarians are Behind the Walls0

    As of this writing, over 30 people are dead and nearly 250 wounded after bombings at the Brussels airport and a major metro hub. ISIS has taken credit for the bombings, based on the report from their news agency, Amaq: “Islamic State fighters carried out a series of bombings with explosive belts and devices on

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  • The Banality of the Modern Hipster

    The Banality of the Modern Hipster0

    A young man caught my eye recently when he walked into a trendy café in Austin. It wasn’t his curling mustache but the fact that he was walking barefoot. This struck me as an odd choice given that it was overcast and drizzly outside. But I restrained my staid judgmental Britishness—this is America, after all,

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  • The Bad Manners of the Campus Left (Video)

    The Bad Manners of the Campus Left (Video)0

    It snowed last Thursday (April 20) in Colorado. It’s not unusual for folks in the Centennial State to witness snow in April if the snowflakes are outside. But on this occasion, they appeared inside a university classroom, which, it turns out, is not unusual either. Having been invited by the local chapter of the student

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  • The Backlash Against Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson Has Chilling Echoes to the Nuremberg Laws of Nazi Germany

    The Backlash Against Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson Has Chilling Echoes to the Nuremberg Laws of Nazi Germany0

    Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will play folk hero John Henry in an upcoming Netflix movie. Until the recent backlash, I was unaware that Johnson is only half black; his mother is Samoan. Some think Johnson, who is among the highest-paid actors in the world, is not black enough to play a black man in the

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  • The Average American Today Is Richer than John D. Rockefeller

    The Average American Today Is Richer than John D. Rockefeller0

    This Atlantic story reveals how Americans lived 100 years ago. By the standards of a middle-class American today, that lifestyle was poor, inconvenient, dreary, and dangerous. (Only a few years later — in 1924 — the 16-year-old son of a sitting US president would die of an infected blister that the boy got on his toe while playing

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  • The Authenticity of Clint Eastwood’s ‘Gran Torino’

    The Authenticity of Clint Eastwood’s ‘Gran Torino’0

    Clint Eastwood made his name with a squint, a glare, a snarl, and a few well-chosen one-liners. His vigilante loner has served him well in films from the spaghetti Westerns, the Dirty Harry franchise, Unforgiven, PaleRider, and more. All these roles are summed up in Walt Kowalski—the main character in the 2008 film Gran Torino —a film Mr. Eastwood directed and

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