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  • The New York Times Begins Correcting the Historical Record on ‘1619 Project’

    The New York Times Begins Correcting the Historical Record on ‘1619 Project’0

    “I have been thinking about this and reading obsessively for 25 years about all the inequalities in American life that can be traced back to slavery,” Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times told an audience at Harvard in December.  Now the Times admits: Her obsession bested her reason.  On March 11, the Times issued a correction to

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  • How C.S. Lewis Would Tell Us to Handle Coronavirus

    How C.S. Lewis Would Tell Us to Handle Coronavirus0

    Last week I saw a C.S. Lewis quote shared on social media. I’d seen this quote from his essay “On Living in an Atomic Age” before, but shrugged it off as a nice thought that didn’t really apply any more. Never mind. Swap out “atomic bomb” for “coronavirus” and the relevance of the quote becomes

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  • Harry, Meghan, and the Real Reason for Megxit

    Harry, Meghan, and the Real Reason for Megxit0

    So farewell Prince Harry. Goodbye Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. Amid the glare of camera flash, the royal couple completed their final public engagements in the U.K. and, at the end of this month, will embark upon their new lives as private citizens. It was fun while it lasted. The only charitable response to what has

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  • Why ‘Medicare for All’ Isn’t the Right Prescription for a Pandemic

    Why ‘Medicare for All’ Isn’t the Right Prescription for a Pandemic0

    Is a pandemic, like other crises, a terrible thing to waste?  For progressives, it looks like a golden opportunity to outlaw Americans’ private health insurance and create a single-payer system of national health insurance for every legal or illegal resident in every nook and cranny of the country.  Take it from the irrepressible Rep. Alexandria

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  • The Coronavirus is Scary, But Remote Work Shouldn’t Scare You

    The Coronavirus is Scary, But Remote Work Shouldn’t Scare You0

    It’s always fun to observe people’s reactions when I tell them I work from home. Pity is not uncommon (“How lonely!”). Occasionally it’s jealousy (“Man, that would be nice!”). Often it’s bewilderment (“How did you pull that off?”). The most common reactions, though, are avowals from people who say in various ways they couldn’t possibly

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  • Missing Jim Lehrer, the Master of Candidate Wrangling at Debates

    Missing Jim Lehrer, the Master of Candidate Wrangling at Debates0

    Boy, do I miss Jim Lehrer. I thought of the late PBS anchor and legendary presidential debate moderator fondly while watching the last two Democratic debates in Charleston and Las Vegas. The constant interruptions, the lack of decorum and the complete disregard for time limits on candidates’ answers all worked to cause viewers like me

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  • Do New Inventions Kill Old Liberties?

    Do New Inventions Kill Old Liberties?0

    There is one aspect of modern science and machinery that nobody has noticed. It is quite new, and it is enormously important. It is this; that the very fact of using new methods makes it easier to fall back on old morals, especially if they are very immoral morals. These prescient words came from the

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  • An Old Guy Looks at Coronavirus

    An Old Guy Looks at Coronavirus0

    Ignorant. That word might well serve as my middle name. I know little of science, though my college professors taught me physics and biology. Higher mathematics is beyond my ken, though I minored in math in college. I recognize the names and the general ideas of certain philosophers, but can’t readily reconstruct Plato’s ideas about

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  • What If Coronavirus Had Been More Serious?

    What If Coronavirus Had Been More Serious?0

    Whatever may be the outcome of the Chinese coronavirus outbreak, it has most assuredly highlighted multiple weaknesses in U.S. policy on immigration and manufacturing. As alarmism and panic grow, whipped up in part by those hoping to damage the president in an election year, the virus – though certainly serious – appears much less likely to be as devastating

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