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  • Privacy is Disappearing

    Privacy is Disappearing0

    According to IVPM, which calls itself “the world’s leading video surveillance information source,” Americans “vastly underestimate” how often their movements are recorded on closed-circuit television (CCTV): “The majority of 1,000 respondents to this Google Consumer Survey assumed they were recorded on CCTV camera 4 times or less per day.” But the real number is about ten times

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  • Privacy in Xinjiang: A Cautionary Tale for America

    Privacy in Xinjiang: A Cautionary Tale for America2

    The Chinese government has wedded totalitarian ambitions with high-tech surveillance technology, conducting a slow cultural genocide of the Uyghur Muslim population in the Xinjiang region of China. The genocide is cultural because the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is not outright killing the Uyghurs. Instead, they are waging a war of slow attrition. The CCP punishes

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  • Principles Are the Antidote to Politics

    Principles Are the Antidote to Politics1

    Only four percent  “of US adults say the political system is working extremely or very well.” Sixty-five percent say we “always or often feel exhausted when thinking about politics.” Yet, we keep doubling down, thinking that more attention on politics will somehow fix what ails society. In 2020, candidates spent over $14 billion seeking the presidency. This was

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  • Princeton Prof: Why it’s Dangerous to Overlook the Past

    Princeton Prof: Why it’s Dangerous to Overlook the Past1

    Not long ago, my colleague Daniel Lattier suggested that a new logical fallacy has been lurking around town. This fallacy, he wrote, could be labeled “ad nostalgiam.” A person commits this fallacy when she reflexively accuses someone of nostalgia for pointing out some particular thing was once better or superior. Revered Princeton professor, theologian, and

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  • Princeton Prof: The 3 Pillars of a Decent Society

    Princeton Prof: The 3 Pillars of a Decent Society0

    It’s clichéd but true to state that Americans are deeply divided politically. The division is so strong that there are now competing definitions for terms such as freedom, justice, progress, and, even, racism. If at our core, we cannot even understand each other, how in the world can we agree upon common goals? To that

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  • Princeton Prof Has the Ultimate Post about the Harriet Tubman $20

    Princeton Prof Has the Ultimate Post about the Harriet Tubman $200

    I admit it. I went online trying to find people spewing venom about Treasury Secretary Jack Lew’s decision to replace Andrew Jackson’s image on the $20 with that of Harriet Tubman. Alas, I’m having a hard time finding any. Oh, I’m sure there will be a few people that will find fault in the decision.

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