Virtue-signaling is a must these days if you want to fit in. Even if you just want to keep your job, it seems one must spout platitudes about social justice, racism, and other woke matters of interest. But what happens when these virtues run up against each other? Which side does the woke crowd fall
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There’s an unavoidable truth that drives all political calculations: When a politically expeditious moment presents itself, politicians will seize upon it even at the risk of their convictions and credibility. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is the latest practitioner of such political opportunism. On June 26, in response to the death of Ahmed Arbery, Kemp, a
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As The Guardian UK runs a whole series on being childfree, I wonder where they’ve put all the articles that make the case for having kids. Of course there are many reasons for choosing not to have a baby, but somehow we live in a world where that opinion seems more educated and high-minded than
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If there is one thing which is currently obsessing large swathes of the ideologically globalized world, it is the scourge of systemic racism. It is a matter of unquestioned dogma that such systemic racism is widespread and that it must be purged from society. To question this unquestionable dogma is a heresy which is punishable
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Governments all around the world are trying to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Making it mandatory for people to wear face masks is a policy that has gained favor among many national governments and state authorities in the United States. Yet any policy that attempts to modify people’s behavior – in this case, making
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Like pagan Danes sweeping through Christendom, rioters pillaged and torched my city of Minneapolis. The results are devastating. For several miles, you can drive along Lake St., the epicenter of the rioting, and witness one burned-out building after another interspersed with piles of rubble where some once stood. Those buildings still standing are often still
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