Blog 3 Columns

2000 and 2020 0
- Culture
- April 21, 2020
There was real panic in the air 20 years ago. The “Y2K bug” was a deceptively simple flaw in older mainframes and software. It coded the year portion of dates with two digits, but this flaw would face a reckoning upon the turn of the millennium, as 2000 would now only be rendered as “00.”
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What We Sacrifice in the Pursuit of Immortality 0
- Culture
- April 20, 2020
“Is the first person who will live to 150 alive today?” asked a recent Wall Street Journal article. The piece features biology Professor Steven Austad who contends that “today’s college students… can expect to live a century or more because their health will be unlike anything seen before in human history.” I had to suppress
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Trump vs. the States: What Federalism Means for the Coronavirus Response 0
- Politics
- April 20, 2020
President Donald Trump recently attempted to explain the complex relationship between the federal government and the states, as outlined by the framers in 1787. “[Y]ou can call it ‘federalist,’ you can call it ‘the Constitution,’ but I call it ‘the Constitution,’” he said at a briefing by the Coronavirus Task Force. Trump’s statement, along with
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Five Things Harvard’s Critique of Homeschooling Gets Wrong 0
- Culture
- April 20, 2020
Author’s Note: This is a copy of my submitted Letter to the Editor of Harvard Magazine regarding its recent article,“The Risks of Homeschooling.” Dear Editor: As a Harvard alum, longtime donor, education researcher, and homeschooling mother of four children in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I was shocked to read the article, “The Risks of Homeschooling,” by Erin
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Fighting for Liberty in the Age of COVID-19 0
- History
- April 20, 2020
It’s about 11 o’clock in the morning on April 19, 1775. Imagine yourself standing in a motley band of 400 people at the North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. You and your neighbors are armed with a variety of firearms, many of you are apprehensive or frightened, and all of you firmly believe that a tyrant
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China Increasingly Controls Information as It Slides Deeper Into Authoritarianism 0
- Culture
- April 20, 2020
Recent revelations about the depth and consequences of China’s suppression of information in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic should shine a light on the nature of the country’s regime. China’s communist government has been tyrannical for more than 70 years, but perhaps surprising to some, it actually has become more authoritarian in recent
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What We Lose When We Can’t Touch the World Around Us 0
- Culture
- April 17, 2020
During one of my daily walks with my toddler, when we passed his favorite playground, I noticed a new sign warning that the coronavirus survives on all kinds of surfaces and that we should no longer use the playground. Since then, I’ve taken great pains to prevent him from touching things. This hasn’t been easy.
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Physician Explains the Most Beneficial Approach to Quality Family Time 0
- Culture
- April 17, 2020
By now we’ve probably all heard about the father arrested for playing catch with his daughter in a park. Regardless of whether you think the lockdown should continue, be lifted, or if you’re undecided on the issue, most people would agree that this incident was a bit heavy-handed. After all, one of the good things
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Leftist State Governments Embrace ‘States’ Rights’0
- Politics
- April 17, 2020
Some White House advisors like Anthony Fauci have often acted as if they were in a position to dictate to states whether or not states mandate “social distancing.” But neither the President or his advisors have ever demonstrated they actually have the legal authority to set state and local policies in these matters. Indeed, Donald
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