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  • U.S. Policy: Cheer Ukrainians On—and Keep Us Out!

    U.S. Policy: Cheer Ukrainians On—and Keep Us Out!0

    After Friday’s NATO summit refused to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said the allies’ failure to “close the skies” to Russian military aircraft gives “a green light for further bombing of Ukrainian cities.”   “All the people who will die starting from this day will … die because of you,” said

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  • Boats Against the Current: Taking Hopeless Times and Making Them Otherwise

    Boats Against the Current: Taking Hopeless Times and Making Them Otherwise0

    “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his 1936 essay, “The Crack-Up.”            Given that test, I’m afraid I would flunk hands-down. Here are some contradictory

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  • God Last, Chaos First

    God Last, Chaos First0

    “Ma’am, I need you to come pick up your daughter,” I say into the phone. “She has been suspended for continual and willful defiance.” “What did she do?” comes the reply. “Yesterday, she cussed out our dean when he asked her to go to class,” I answer, glossing past the many times she had skipped

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  • A Change in Sex Ed? Count Me In

    A Change in Sex Ed? Count Me In1

    As some readers may know, I’m an old guy, born during the middle of the Korean War. Which makes me a time machine.            Listen to me, and I can whisk you back to the late 1960s, when in high school we took biology and health classes. In biology we probably

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  • Training Faithful Foot Soldiers in the War Against the Elite

    Training Faithful Foot Soldiers in the War Against the Elite0

    A friend of mine recently bemoaned the fact that people only ever tell her how difficult parenting is. Since she is expecting her first child, such “friendly advice” isn’t the most encouraging thing to hear. Unfortunately, discouraging words about raising children aren’t all that out of the ordinary, a fact writer Lucy Huber addresses in

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  • The CDC Changed Its COVID Risk Formula. The Results Are Stunning

    The CDC Changed Its COVID Risk Formula. The Results Are Stunning0

    On Feb. 25, the CDC made its expected announcement that it was updating its framework to monitor and contain COVID-19. “We’re in a stronger place today as a nation with more tools to protect ourselves in our communities from COVID-19, like vaccination, boosters, broader access to testing, availability of high quality masks, accessibility to new

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