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  • No Safety in Silence

    No Safety in Silence0

    Silence is golden. Only, however, if it is the right kind of silence. Silence in the face of personal attacks or public crusades may be wise. Our collective guppy-like span of attention means that for many causes du jour or even du moment it is often best to simply say nothing and wait it out.

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  • What Royal Fashion Teaches About Compromise

    What Royal Fashion Teaches About Compromise0

    It all came down to hosiery. While the world was preoccupied with COVID-19 and the protests sweeping America, a minor royal mystery was solved. News outlets had long reported that a few days before her 2018 wedding to Britain’s Prince Harry, Meghan Markle made Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, cry over something. The spat took

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  • ‘Tyranny Without a Tyrant’: Hannah Arendt on the Root and Growth of Violence

    ‘Tyranny Without a Tyrant’: Hannah Arendt on the Root and Growth of Violence1

    It’s funny how peaceful all this recent protesting for change has been. In fact, it’s so peaceful that average Americans, trying to go about their lives as normally as possible, are simply surrounded by love and feelings of euphoria. I speak tongue-in-cheek, of course, for the exact opposite seems to be the case. The video

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  • Why Are So Many People Lighting off Fireworks?

    Why Are So Many People Lighting off Fireworks?1

    The number of fireworks being lit off at night is out of control this year. While people often light off fireworks close to the Fourth of July, this year fireworks have been lit in large numbers starting weeks earlier. New York City had a 4,000 percent increase in fireworks complaints in the first two weeks

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  • Blue States Have Been Hit Much Harder by COVID-19

    Blue States Have Been Hit Much Harder by COVID-190

    In March, data guru Nate Silver wrote about the different ways blue states and red states were experiencing the COVID-19 epidemic, noting that “states Clinton won do have considerably more total reported cases.” COVID-19 was not just a blue state problem though. Silver pointed out that cases in red states were increasing far more rapidly.

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  • Hillary Was Right About BLM

    Hillary Was Right About BLM0

    In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, you may have noticed that some of your white friends and family members engaged in an odd ritual: They filled their social media pages with confessional screeds acknowledging their white privilege and vaguely promising “to do better,” to listen more, and so on and so forth ad nauseam.

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