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  • When Half Of NYC’s Tax Base Leaves And Never Comes Back

    When Half Of NYC’s Tax Base Leaves And Never Comes Back0

    The separateness in New York, and by extension much of the nation curled around it from America’s eastern edge, stands out. There are the hyper-wealthy and there are the multi-generational poor. They depend on each other, but with COVID who needs who more has changed. It’s easy to stress how far apart the rich and

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  • Hand-In-Hand: Bad Programs, Wasted Money, and Our Government

    Hand-In-Hand: Bad Programs, Wasted Money, and Our Government0

    Ronald Reagan once famously said, “I think you all know that I’ve always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” That baseball team of words should continue to terrify us. When we look at government failures in the last 50 years, the list

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  • Fired for Accidentally Using Wrong Pronouns, Teacher Takes Case to Court

    Fired for Accidentally Using Wrong Pronouns, Teacher Takes Case to Court0

    Peter Vlaming has two great passions – teaching and French. But a Virginia school district stripped the French teacher of the ability to impart these passions in high school classrooms when it fired him for not using pronouns preferred by a transgender student. “I explained to my principal that I couldn’t in good conscience pronounce

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  • Cancel Culture Is Undermining Learning and Harming Students Like Me

    Cancel Culture Is Undermining Learning and Harming Students Like Me0

    In my tenth grade English class, just like many other American students, I read some of the works of the late Joseph Conrad, an unbounded explorer and captivating writer. But my class did not analyze Conrad’s books as my father or grandfather did when they were my age. Instead of discussing how his works shaped

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  • Andrew Cuomo’s DNC Speech Was a Travesty of Errors

    Andrew Cuomo’s DNC Speech Was a Travesty of Errors0

    Many political speeches are full of imprecise rhetoric and easily disproven statements. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s speech to the Democratic National Convention Monday night is one such speech. Here are six of the governor’s statements, dissected for your morbid reading pleasure. Number One “New Yorkers were ground zero for the COVID virus and have gone from

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  • What Will Not Recover: Government

    What Will Not Recover: Government0

    What becomes of government credibility in the post-lockdown period? There are thousands of politicians in this country for whom this is a chilling question, even a taboo topic. The reputation of government was already at postwar lows before the lockdowns, with only 17 percent of the American public saying that they trusted government to do

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  • Schools Attempt to Keep Children in the ‘Magic Womb’

    Schools Attempt to Keep Children in the ‘Magic Womb’0

    Many children are hitting the books again for another school year in a way they never have before. Still in a COVID coma, many schools have opted for a distance learning model, or a hybrid model combining in-person and distance instruction. Yet even as we begin the new school year, reports are still emerging of

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  • How to Choose a True Leader in the 2020 Election

    How to Choose a True Leader in the 2020 Election0

    Leaving our Airbnb rental in Maine a few weeks ago, I chatted with the owner, whom I’ll call Fred.  Me: “I hope when we see you next year, the world is in a better place.”  Fred: “I’m looking forward to better leadership.” Me: “I’m afraid you will be sadly disappointed.” Fred: “Well, I know who

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  • How the Media Drives Radical ‘Wokeness’

    How the Media Drives Radical ‘Wokeness’0

    “Fake news” isn’t the only media problem in 2020. An important analysis in media trends of the past decade shows how activist journalism is promoting radical racial “wokeness.” There was a time when the woke ideology was firmly ensconced in the ivory tower and limited to radical corners of our university system. But now it’s

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