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You May Think You Like Socialism, but You’re Probably Not a Socialist at Heart 0
- Culture
- March 16, 2020
Did you ever have to do a big project with another classmate in elementary or high school? If so, did you find sometimes you were the one doing all the work while your teammate didn’t do much other than share in the good grade you earned? How did that make you feel? Probably angry and
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The New York Times Begins Correcting the Historical Record on ‘1619 Project’0
- History
- March 16, 2020
“I have been thinking about this and reading obsessively for 25 years about all the inequalities in American life that can be traced back to slavery,” Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times told an audience at Harvard in December. Now the Times admits: Her obsession bested her reason. On March 11, the Times issued a correction to
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Harry, Meghan, and the Real Reason for Megxit 0
- Culture
- March 16, 2020
So farewell Prince Harry. Goodbye Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. Amid the glare of camera flash, the royal couple completed their final public engagements in the U.K. and, at the end of this month, will embark upon their new lives as private citizens. It was fun while it lasted. The only charitable response to what has
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Travel in the Time of Corona 1
- Culture
- March 16, 2020
It is Friday morning, March 13th, the first day of President Trump’s ban on most Europeans’ travel to the United States. Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla Airport is notably less busy than usual. The local news station reports the current tally at 9 a.m. Corona infections have reached 130,000 and caused 5,000 deaths in 114 countries thus
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Do New Inventions Kill Old Liberties?0
- History
- March 13, 2020
There is one aspect of modern science and machinery that nobody has noticed. It is quite new, and it is enormously important. It is this; that the very fact of using new methods makes it easier to fall back on old morals, especially if they are very immoral morals. These prescient words came from the
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The Coronavirus is Scary, But Remote Work Shouldn’t Scare You 0
- Culture
- March 13, 2020
It’s always fun to observe people’s reactions when I tell them I work from home. Pity is not uncommon (“How lonely!”). Occasionally it’s jealousy (“Man, that would be nice!”). Often it’s bewilderment (“How did you pull that off?”). The most common reactions, though, are avowals from people who say in various ways they couldn’t possibly
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You May Think You Like Socialism, but You’re Probably Not a Socialist at Heart 0