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  • Don’t Believe the Polls

    Don’t Believe the Polls0

    Have you seen the polls lately? I’m referring to those surveys which the media tout as predictors of how Donald Trump will fare in the November election. If you look at these polls and support the President’s reelection bid, a feeling of doom and gloom has probably set in. If this is how you feel,

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  • NYT Encourages Women to Blame their Husbands for COVID-19 Struggles

    NYT Encourages Women to Blame their Husbands for COVID-19 Struggles0

    “I want my mommy!” is the standard cry of small children everywhere. However, during the recent COVID-19 crisis, it’s become a feminist issue. That seems to be the conclusion of an article in the New York Times titled “They Go to Mommy First: How the pandemic is disproportionately disrupting mothers’ careers.”  The logic goes like this: Kids

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  • Hypocrisy American Style

    Hypocrisy American Style0

    In her online article “Systemic Hypocrisy,” Judith Bergman looks at those major corporations that use Chinese labor to make their products, or that have ties to China in other ways. These corporations are giving millions of dollars to groups which seek to end racism in the United States – like Black Lives Matter – while

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  • Parents and Teachers Starting ‘Learning Pods’ Are Done Waiting for Permission

    Parents and Teachers Starting ‘Learning Pods’ Are Done Waiting for Permission0

    The widespread “pandemic pods” that are emerging as back-to-school alternatives this fall are models of parental ingenuity, educator adaptability, and entrepreneurial agility. These learning pods, or in-home microschools, involve small groups of families coming together to take turns facilitating a curriculum for their children in their homes, or pooling resources to hire a teacher or

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  • Fighting Nature by Abandoning Herd Immunity

    Fighting Nature by Abandoning Herd Immunity0

    When I was a kid, I used to love the show “Fraggle Rock.” A creation of “The Muppets’” Jim Henson, it detailed the underground life of the Fraggles. These furry imaginary creatures lived alongside the dutiful Doozers, who quietly built their elaborate, edible constructions. The Doozers built and the Fraggles ate, without any apparent hard

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  • What Will the Future Think of Us?

    What Will the Future Think of Us?0

    I love reading histories and biographies. Because of my interest in the past, a particular fantasy is pestering me. What if I could return from the grave in fifty years or more, and see what historians of the future might have written of the time in which I have lived, particularly the last 30 years?

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