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2020: The Year ‘Expert’ Credibility Died 0
- Culture
- December 30, 2020
If there were ever a time to “question authority,” as the old counterculture slogan of the 1960s urged, the authoritarian age of COVID-19 is that time. Two thousand twenty will go down in American history as the year that public health “experts” got everything wrong. It’s not just that their judgment
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Political Correctness in the History of the South 0
- History
- December 30, 2020
I was recently gifted “The South Was Right,” by James Ronald and Walter Donald Kennedy, an updated version of a work originally produced in 1994. Seeking an antidote to the PC historiography in which our universities are now awash, I happily plunged into this printed gift. The present “leftist ideologues,” more than their predecessors, hate
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Orwell’s ‘Coming Up for Air’ Is Prophetic for Our Times 0
- Literature
- December 30, 2020
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Identity Politics Means Rule by Useful Idiots 0
- Politics
- December 30, 2020
Identity politics is now the term du jour and its meaning is clear enough on a superficial level—choosing people according to their physical characteristics and sexual preferences. The left wants more people of color, women, and gays in influential positions, while the right insists that these traits are secondary to competence in a given job.
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2020: America’s Wake-Up Call 0
- Culture
- December 29, 2020
Who could have predicted how dreadful a year 2020 would be? By this New Year’s Eve, 19 million to 20 million Americans will have contracted a deadly virus in a pandemic that exploded out of China to carry off 333,000 Americans, one of every 1,000 of us. As 2021 begins, Americans will be dying at
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A Reading List to Drive the ‘Woke’ Crowd Crazy 1
- Culture
- December 29, 2020
At the beginning of the year, a couple of my coworkers challenged me to join the yearly book challenge on Goodreads. While I am still wrapping up a few of my selections, I’m on track to finish my goal, and it’s rewarding to see the finish line in sight. Having done this challenge, I took
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