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Break Up the Social Media Companies to Protect Free Speech 0
- Culture
- June 17, 2019
Donald Trump is preparing to unleash the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission as antitrust warriors against the tech giants. And good on him. Breaking up the monopolies on speech might save us—particularly anyone right-of-center—from encroaching online deplatforming, and preserve our ability to hear ideas outside echo chambers of bullied consensus. The First Amendment doesn’t restrain censorship
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America: Still the Land of Hope 0
- Culture
- June 17, 2019
“In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men’s reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifetime across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional. Now that blocks good thinking. That is why, in times like ours,
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‘I Want You to Panic,’ Said Greta, and Panic They Did 0
- Culture
- June 17, 2019
“There is no more any prophet,” is the bitter lament of the Psalmist in the Babylonian Exile. We are more fortunate. Sixteen-year-old Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg has been out-Jeremiah-ing Jeremiah as she criss-crosses Europe lecturing about the imminent catastrophe of climate change. Here’s how she excoriated “the people and prophets and priests” at the World Economic Forum in
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Olympe de Gouges, Heroine of the French Revolution 0
- Culture
- June 14, 2019
Despite the tendency of French historians to depict the events of 1789-1799 in a more favorable light than they deserve, heroes of the ghastly French Revolution are few in number. Hundreds of thousands of people perished in a decade-long spasm of violence, tyranny, hyperinflation, and war – with precious little to show for it. Britain’s Glorious
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Happy Birthday, Donald Trump… and Che Guevara 0
- Politics
- June 14, 2019
Ironically, Donald Trump, the capitalist, and Che Guevara, the communist, share the same birthday. President Trump turns 73 on June 14th, while Guevara would have been 92. Most Americans are familiar with Trump’s life, but beyond the commonly seen t-shirt logo, less is known about Guevara. Born in 1928 to a middle class
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Divorced Dads Often Dissed by School 0
- Culture
- June 14, 2019
By the time Father’s Day takes place, the school year is usually over. In many ways, that’s an apt metaphor for how divorced fathers – or fathers who don’t live with their children – get treated by their children’s schools. That is, they’re often simply not seen as part of what takes place at school.
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