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  • Why Facts Don’t Matter to People

    Why Facts Don’t Matter to People0

    Frustrated with COVID-19 restrictions on daily life, a friend said to me, “I just want to know the truth.” Like many people, my exasperated friend, and others I know, are mesmerized and frightened by daily news reports on the number of COVID-19 cases. You can cite all the data you want, such as these; from

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  • Violence Is the Language of the Unthinking

    Violence Is the Language of the Unthinking0

    I made the mistake of scrolling through Twitter last night before I went to bed. It was filled with videos and stories from recent days about statue toppling, violence, and individuals taking their anger out on others. Perhaps one of the most disturbing is the clip of a black man beating up a white employee

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  • The Media Can No Longer Connect the Dots

    The Media Can No Longer Connect the Dots0

    Which racial group is most likely to be killed by police in the United States? It’s not African-Americans, it’s Native Americans. Native Americans are less than one percent of the nation’s population but make up about two percent of police killings. Some of them have been horrific. The Great Falls Tribune, a newspaper in Billings,

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  • Repairing America’s Three-Legged Stool

    Repairing America’s Three-Legged Stool0

    In the past four months, a friend has occasionally sent me Bible verses via email, words intended to console me when I was feeling down. Inspired by these gifts, I recently decided to begin reading the Bible for a few minutes every day, hoping for uplift and insight in the midst of our current dark

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  • Pelosi Cancels History By Removing Her Predecessors

    Pelosi Cancels History By Removing Her Predecessors0

    On June 18, the portraits of four former Speakers of the House, all connected to the Confederate States of America and the Civil War, were removed from the walls of the Capitol. In the words of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, “There is no room in the hallowed halls of Congress or in any place of

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  • The Systemic Racism Argument Ignores Free Will

    The Systemic Racism Argument Ignores Free Will0

    In college I took a course on debating and argument. Well, to say I took the course may be a stretch; I dropped it after a few days after pushing back against the politics of my classmates and receiving this assertion from my instructor in response: “Institutional racism is a fact whether or not I

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  • The Bob Dylan Song to Guide Today’s Protestors

    The Bob Dylan Song to Guide Today’s Protestors0

    In 1963, Bob Dylan was a fresh-faced kid probably unrecognizable to most Americans, but he showed he was already an old soul when he delivered a speech in the Grand Ballroom of New York City’s American Hotel that December. It was about two weeks before Christmas, and Dylan was on hand to receive the Tom

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  • Stop Decolonizing Bookshelves and Keep an Open Mind

    Stop Decolonizing Bookshelves and Keep an Open Mind0

    The movement to “decolonize your bookshelf” has been around for a few years, albeit mostly confined to college campuses and radical left-wing circles. Fiction author Juan Vidal defended the idea of the “decolonize bookshelves” movement in an article for National Public Radio, a media outlet that receives taxpayer funding. “I can’t help but wonder whether

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  • Kids Have No Place at Protests

    Kids Have No Place at Protests0

    America is awash with protests right now. Thousands are taking to the streets – and it is not uncommon to see children among the crowds. There is a practical reason for that. The ongoing coronavirus shutdown means it is hard for parents to arrange babysitting. But many parents also believe taking children to protests constitutes

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