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  • Is New York City Entering a Pension Death Spiral like Chicago?

    Is New York City Entering a Pension Death Spiral like Chicago?0

    As bad as the situation in Chicago is, with a public pension system 42 billion in the red, New York has even worse exposure. Its standings include 65 billion in unfunded pension liabilities, 100 billion in unfunded retiree health care, and a city debt of approximately 50 billion – for a grand total of 215

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  • The Authenticity of Clint Eastwood’s ‘Gran Torino’

    The Authenticity of Clint Eastwood’s ‘Gran Torino’0

    Clint Eastwood made his name with a squint, a glare, a snarl, and a few well-chosen one-liners. His vigilante loner has served him well in films from the spaghetti Westerns, the Dirty Harry franchise, Unforgiven, PaleRider, and more. All these roles are summed up in Walt Kowalski—the main character in the 2008 film Gran Torino —a film Mr. Eastwood directed and

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  • What’s the Best Way to Deal with a ‘Political Animal’?

    What’s the Best Way to Deal with a ‘Political Animal’?0

    G. K. Chesterton was that rarest of political animals. He was a fellow of firm views and well decided certainties. But he was also someone who always treated those of differing views and certainties with fairness and kindness. (We could use many more of his type these days, couldn’t we?) How did Chesterton manage to

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