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  • Stop the Hysteria on COVID-19 Learning Loss

    Stop the Hysteria on COVID-19 Learning Loss0

    More than one billion students around the world are currently missing school due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Several US states have already canceled school for the remainder of the academic year, turning to online learning when possible, and other states are likely to extend their school closures soon. Some educationists panic about learning loss while

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  • The Old Left Wasn’t Very Leftist

    The Old Left Wasn’t Very Leftist2

    While researching a book on antifascism, it became clear to me that the contemporary left has strange ideas about what earlier leftists believed. This is especially true in the ascription of a certain timelessness to intersectional politics, which today’s antifascists are all about. In How Fascism Works by Yale Philosophy Professor Jason Stanley, and in

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  • Christ and the Nazi Officer

    Christ and the Nazi Officer0

    Christians, we often hear, are “so heavenly minded that they’re no earthly good.”  To be sure, there is some validity to this criticism. Plenty of Christians allow their faith in divine providence to override their responsibility to care for the world and for their neighbor. The way in which many Christians automatically dismiss all ecological concerns as

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  • Sanders Exits Stage Left, but His Ideas Remain

    Sanders Exits Stage Left, but His Ideas Remain2

    Bernie is finally out. In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, it was sometimes easy to forget that Bernie Sanders was still in, or that there was a Democratic Party primary race in the works at all. Following his withdrawal from the race earlier Wednesday, Bernie Sanders fans took to Twitter, using the hashtag #NotMeUs

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  • The Religious Liberty Disappearing Act

    The Religious Liberty Disappearing Act0

    Easter is coming. We are at the conclusion of Lent, a time of sacrifice and spiritual renewal for Catholics. During Lent, we imitate Jesus’ fasting in the desert. Our small self-denial is rightly understood not as an exercise in masochism, but as a form of spiritual food. Sadly, we cannot go to Mass and celebrate

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  • Beware: Our New Online Culture Is a Feast for Mass Surveillance

    Beware: Our New Online Culture Is a Feast for Mass Surveillance0

    The rapid spread of COVID-19 has caused network traffic to surge as Internet users resort to video conferencing to work remotely. For example, last December online meeting provider Zoom hosted roughly 10 million participants. In March this statistic jumped to 200 million. The public’s stampede to the cloud is an auspicious development for the intelligence

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