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The Three Stooges Make a Comeback 6
- International, Politics
- October 17, 2022
“The rewards for being sane are not many, but knowing what’s funny is one of them.” Thus spoke the late novelist Kingsley Amis through a character in his work, Stanley and the Women. Whether I am sane may be a point of contention, especially since the hammer blows from the political and cultural disasters of
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Why So Many Elites Can’t Stand Elon Musk 3
- Culture, Politics
- October 17, 2022
Elon Musk’s Twitter-acquisition saga saw new developments last week as Musk reaffirmed his original offer to buy the company for $54.20 per share, a price that puts the company’s value at a whopping $44 billion. After the original deal was settled in April, Musk tried to back out in July, alleging Twitter was misrepresenting the
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Climbing Out of the Grievance Pit 4
- Culture, History
- October 14, 2022
Sometimes one gets great insight from the oddest places. This happened to me the other day when a headline about Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, caught my eye. As we all know, Meghan had a massive fallout with the British royal family, moving to the U.S. with her husband Prince Harry to allegedly live private
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Can Economists Predict the Future? Hardly.0
- Economics
- October 14, 2022
Economists predict the future course of economic events to show we have a sense of humor. If we could do so accurately, we’d all be very rich, and we’re not; we’re comfortable, but not fantastically rich (except in our enjoyment of the dismal science). Why can’t we predict the future? Because the world is a
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Of Bureaucrats and Bunk Beds 2
- Culture, Family, Politics
- October 14, 2022
Want to take in foster kids in Maryland? You can’t let them sleep in bunk beds. The fine print of Maryland’s foster care regulations says: “Each child shall have an individual bed that may not be stacked in vertical bunk bed formation.” In practice that means that if you don’t have a lot of extra
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Making the Most Out of Our Winter of Discontent 0
- Philosophy, Culture, Literature
- October 13, 2022
In C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the Witch casts an evil spell over Narnia, making it a cold and barren land, locked in snow and ice where it’s “always winter but never Christmas.” Now, there’s a chilling thought. It’s still early October and last night the mercury dropped into the
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