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  • Small Signs of Hope That Lockdowns Could Soon End

    Small Signs of Hope That Lockdowns Could Soon End0

    For so many months, it’s been nonstop bad news on business closures, arts trashed, museum shuttering, unemployment, missed surgeries and diagnostics, plus rising loneliness, drug overdoses, depression, and suicide. Every day has been as dark or darker than the previous one. And yet here we are with a political class, all over the world, refusing

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  • Gallup Poll: Homeschooling Rate Doubles

    Gallup Poll: Homeschooling Rate Doubles0

    Results of a new Gallup poll released this week may give us the sharpest look yet at how the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted American education and what may lie ahead. According to the poll, parents’ overall satisfaction with their child’s education dropped 10 percent over last year, while at the same time the number of

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  • Eyes Wide Open: Seeing Liberty

    Eyes Wide Open: Seeing Liberty0

    In Lost In The Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, Walker Percy raises a number of philosophical questions regarding the self and why we know so little about ourselves. He also invites readers to participate in a number of “Thought Experiments.” In a chapter on “Why the Self is the only Object in the Cosmos which Gets Bored,”

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  • Coming Full Circle: A Way Out of the Riots

    Coming Full Circle: A Way Out of the Riots0

    Another night, another round of riots. They’ve now come full circle, as rioters hit up Minneapolis for the second time since George Floyd’s death. The rationale of the rioters? Rumors that police shot a black man. The truth that soon emerged, however, was that the man killed himself as police closed in due to his

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  • France Rules Out Lockdown Despite Surge in COVID Cases

    France Rules Out Lockdown Despite Surge in COVID Cases0

    The long summer of 2020 just keeps getting longer, but some world leaders are showing a reluctance to keep marching to the drumbeat of the all-consuming war on COVID-19. Public health officials in France last week announced the nation experienced 3,776 new COVID-19 infections on Wednesday, the largest daily total it had seen in three

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  • ‘Nice White Parents’ Responsible for Failing Public Schools, Says NYT

    ‘Nice White Parents’ Responsible for Failing Public Schools, Says NYT0

    Why does the public education system continue to fail America’s children? Policy experts have pondered this question for decades. Most say the answer is complicated, requiring a nuanced, collaborative approach. But not The New York Times. It found the problem, and it’s simple: white parents. The solution? “Try, whenever possible, to suppress the power of

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