In his classic essay “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell describes how politicians hide their actions beneath generous helpings of words chosen to mislead. Today’s media-saturated environment has supersized the high-calorie, low-nutrition verbiage. The twin crises of the China virus and George Floyd unrest provide a virtual all-you-can-eat buffet. “Social Distancing” Why “social” distancing?
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“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes” is Latin for “Who will guard the guardians themselves?” Once upon a time the guardians of freedom and fair play in America were members of the fourth estate: the press. Earlier generations thought of reporters and journalists as watchdogs, keeping their eyes on the machinations of government and rooting out corruption,
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The only thing we know for certain about COVID-19 is that more people are dying this year than in previous years. A lot more. CDC data on deaths from all causes show an increase through May 20 of 11 percent above the average through that same date for the previous six years. That’s over 127,000
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It is an old, old story. When you push water down into the bathtub, some of it inevitably seeps out and wets the washroom floor. In the same way, raising taxes to inordinate levels means rich people inevitably leave. The actor Gerard Depardieu moved from France to Belgium. The tennis player Bjorn Borg emigrated from
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Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, Abigail Shrier, Regnery Publishing, 287 pp. In 2014, TIME magazine featured transgender actor Laverne Cox on the cover under the title “The Transgender Tipping Point.” A year later, in 2015, CNN announced the formal arrival of our “transgender moment.” In June of that year, Caitlyn Jenner’s Vanity
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The large “Black Lives Matter” slogan painted on the street of the courthouse square in Redwood City, California lasted roughly two weeks before city officials changed course and had the painting removed. The Washington Post reports that unlike other street paintings featuring Black Lives Matter messaging, this particular item was not afflicted by vandalism. Instead, Redwood City,
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