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  • Karl Marx: Intellectual Father of the 1619 Project?

    Karl Marx: Intellectual Father of the 1619 Project?0

    The New York Times’ 1619 Project seeks to establish the moment the first slave ship landed in Virginia as “a new point of origin for our national story,” because “nearly everything that has made America exceptional grew out of slavery.” The series – which attempts to link American prosperity, our economic system, even our lack of a single-payer healthcare system to slavery – can count

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  • How China Weaponizes Mass Migration Against Hong Kong

    How China Weaponizes Mass Migration Against Hong Kong0

    HONG KONG – China has instituted an immigration scheme that allows 150 Mainlanders a day to migrate to Hong Kong, and local officials have no power to vet or control who comes. Protesters say the program is being administered by the Chinese Communist Party in order to dilute Hong Kong identity and make the island more pro-Beijing. What’s viewed in Hong

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  • Data on Amazon Rainforest Fires Tell a Much Different Story Than Social Media

    Data on Amazon Rainforest Fires Tell a Much Different Story Than Social Media0

    “Our House Is on Fire” It is hard to miss the news reports on the fire in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Millions of people are calling for immediate action on social media and, with a limited amount of prior knowledge, there is little surprise that much of what is being reported is inaccurate. A

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  • Why Difficult Video Games Are Best

    Why Difficult Video Games Are Best0

    I was recently at a brunch that included couples with young children when the hostess pulled out an attractive diversion for the kids: a mini-NES. To her surprise, all the 30-something fathers were just as excited as the kids, and the mass of young and old video game enthusiasts crowded around, offering tips to set

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  • Neat Freak No More: Some Thoughts on Housekeeping

    Neat Freak No More: Some Thoughts on Housekeeping2

    Yesterday morning I walked through the kitchen of the house where I am living and, like the Apostle Paul, the scales fell from my eyes. My scales disappeared when I recognized the kitchen for the untidy pit it had become. For well over an hour I washed the dishes I’d neglected for two days, put

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  • Hang On to Your Prejudices – Some of Them, Anyway

    Hang On to Your Prejudices – Some of Them, Anyway0

    In his 1987 book The Closing of the American Mind, the late Allan Bloom wrote of a debate he once had with a psychology professor when he taught at Cornell University. The psychologist “said that it was his function to get rid of prejudices in his students. He knocked them down like tenpins. I began to

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  • Could the Green New Deal Create More Climate Victims Than It Saves?

    Could the Green New Deal Create More Climate Victims Than It Saves?0

    Today, CNN is televising a “climate crisis town hall” for Democratic presidential candidates. Meanwhile, Hurricane Dorian, after tearing through the Bahamas, is menacing Florida and the East Coast. The candidates will surely point to the hurricane as they call for drastic measures against climate change. Tweeting about Dorian, Bernie Sanders has already offered his own

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  • Batman vs. Modern Art

    Batman vs. Modern Art0

    The secret’s out. My dual identity has been discovered. By day, I spend my time in the company of serious writers and thinkers, such as Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, and Thomas Aquinas, but by night I sit down with my eleven-year-old daughter to watch episodes of Batman, the 1960s television series starring Adam West and Burt Ward

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  • Why Socialism Is the Failed Idea That Never Dies

    Why Socialism Is the Failed Idea That Never Dies0

    Kristian Niemietz, Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies. Institute for Economic Affairs, London 2019, 374 pages. What would you say to an amateur chef who baked a cake following a certain recipe only for everyone who ate a slice to fall ill quickly afterward? Being such an enthusiastic baker, they bake the same cake

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