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  • Decentralization Is Gaining Popularity During COVID-19

    Decentralization Is Gaining Popularity During COVID-190

    In the increasingly polarized America, Black Swan moments like the COVID-19 pandemic have further confirmed growing divides in the country. Our textbooks would like us to believe that emergencies create fertile grounds for unity. But when you have a populace that is politically dividing itself even when it comes to the TV shows it watches,

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  • How Fanatics Hack Our Minds (And Why We Let Them)

    How Fanatics Hack Our Minds (And Why We Let Them)0

    In his 1841 book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles MacKay wrote, “During seasons of great pestilence men have often believed the prophecies of crazed fanatics, that the end of the world was coming. Credulity is always greatest in times of calamity.” During the COVID-19 crisis, there has been no shortage of

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  • Gender Prof: It’s a Problem if White Men Cure COVID-19

    Gender Prof: It’s a Problem if White Men Cure COVID-190

    A few days ago, I came across a tweet predicting that the “brilliant intrepid scientist” who discovers a coronavirus vaccine will enjoy only “3 minutes of global admiration before people start combing through his old tweets to see if he ever said something problematic.” Can’t wait for some brilliant intrepid scientist to announce the cure for Coronavirus

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  • China Is Working Overtime to Suppress Research About Coronavirus Origin

    China Is Working Overtime to Suppress Research About Coronavirus Origin0

    The lesson of history for tyrannical regimes is that the truth is dangerous. Clearly, the Chinese Communist Party knows this full well, which is why it’s working overtime to bury the truth as the world is mired in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. China has worked aggressively to suppress critical media and waged a widespread disinformation

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  • Building Your Own Food Supply Chains During COVID-19

    Building Your Own Food Supply Chains During COVID-190

    As we are all presently discovering, there are inherent risks built into the industrialized food system with its just-in-time delivery. In the last 150 years we have migrated away from growing our own food to relying on distant production facilities and long supply chains. This arrangement is highly efficient and profitable when times are good.

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  • Attacks on Homeschooling Suggest Nervous Government Schools

    Attacks on Homeschooling Suggest Nervous Government Schools0

    It’s funny how homeschooling – that once-upon-a-time fringe movement of education – has now become the norm. Everyone’s doing it out of sheer necessity. For some, it’s going great! What was at first a stressful and uncertain task is now becoming routine. In fact, a recent poll conducted by EdChoice found that over half of

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  • Why the Current Unemployment Is Worse Than the Great Depression

    Why the Current Unemployment Is Worse Than the Great Depression0

    The latest report on new unemployment claims was abysmal, coming in at 4.4 million last week, some 100,000 more than surveyed economists had expected. The continuous claims came in at just under 16 million, an all-time record. Mainstream labor economists estimate that, all things considered, the actual unemployment rate now (which is only officially reported

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  • The Coronavirus Quarantine Won’t Cause Quick Political Changes

    The Coronavirus Quarantine Won’t Cause Quick Political Changes0

    A dramatic change in our political situation is coming as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. At least, that’s what I’ve heard some individuals joyously suggest.  One reason for this suggestion is the current immigration situation. Because immigration is temporarily halted in the U.S. and most of Europe, those who wish to restrict it have

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  • Our Children Are Not Slaves of the State

    Our Children Are Not Slaves of the State0

    Last week brought two special delights. Though I had read and even taught Francis Gray Patton’s novel Good Morning, Miss Dove, I had never seen the movie. With forlorn hope, I went to YouTube, punched in the title, and there it was, a wonderful film released in 1955 starring Jennifer Jones as “The Terrible Miss Dove,” an

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