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  • Spouting Platitudes About Woodstock Won’t Change What It Actually Was

    Spouting Platitudes About Woodstock Won’t Change What It Actually Was0

    It is the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, and we’re already being subjected to dreamy reminiscences about it from people whose accounts cannot really be relied upon because they are based largely on memories of people who were in a drug-induced stupor. If you were on drugs, Woodstock seemed great. Of course, if you were on drugs,

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  • Spotting Doublethink in Ourselves

    Spotting Doublethink in Ourselves0

    George Packer has a good review essay of a new book about the George Orwell novel 1984. Excerpt: We stagger under the daily load of doublethink pouring from Trump, his enablers in the Inner Party, his mouthpieces in the Ministry of Truth, and his fanatical supporters among the proles. Spotting doublethink in ourselves is much

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  • Sports and the Need for Heroism

    Sports and the Need for Heroism1

    I’ll be the first to acknowledge the corruption that has entered into modern sports, especially at the professional level. We witness overpaid athletes, self-aggrandizement, the cult of the body, political agendas, and obsession with money and the ephemeral admiration of the masses that passes like a firework: a blaze of glory and then darkness. The

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  • Spending on College Sports is Out of Control

    Spending on College Sports is Out of Control0

    th college football season upon us, this is a good time to consider again the allure that fielding winning teams in the big-money sports (football and basketball) has for many higher education leaders. Just as many students are convinced that getting into an elite college is essential to their futures, so many college presidents are

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  • Spending a $100 Million a Year to Pay Teachers to Do Nothing

    Spending a $100 Million a Year to Pay Teachers to Do Nothing0

    The New York Post ran a story Sunday about a man who was suing New York City. He wasn’t after money (he’s making $94,000 a year). He was suing to be allowed to earn his money. David Suker, 48, is one of hundreds of teachers in the Absent Teacher Reserve. He gets paid to show

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  • Special Interests Could Be Delaying a COVID-19 Vaccine

    Special Interests Could Be Delaying a COVID-19 Vaccine15

    At the time of peak lockdown, nearly 94 percent of the U.S. population was placed under stay-at-home orders to slow the spread of COVID-19. Currently, every state is working toward ending, or already has ended, their stay-at-home measures. Lifting the lockdown has provided many benefits. Foremost, the U.S. economy climbed out of a severe downturn,

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