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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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Cancel Culture and the Golden Age of Musical Theater 0
- Culture
- December 29, 2020
My mom loved listening to Broadway musicals and particularly favored South Pacific. By the time I left for college, she had played that record so often I had memorized most of the songs and can still belt them out. I also saw the movie with her—I’m generally not a fan of musicals on film, and this
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Russian Bishop Calls Biden’s Transgender Statement Blasphemous 0
- Culture
- December 28, 2020
Propagating gender reassignment among children should be a criminal offence, Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev, the chairman of External Church Relations Department of the Moscow Patriarchate, recently declared on “Russia 24” TV network. His comment was made in response to Joe Biden’s recent statement of support for the supposed right of children to choose their gender. “The
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