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The Case of the Silent Voter 0
- History
- September 25, 2020
By now you may have heard of the silent voter. The silent voter is nothing new. The New York Times identified this phenomenon way back in November of 1886, describing it as “the vote which helps make what are called tidal waves in politics.” In more recent years, the silent voter seems to reside in
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Garden or Graveyard: What Will Be Our Legacy?0
- Literature
- September 25, 2020
This morning I came across the following quote by Ray Bradbury while looking for his observation: “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” Bradbury says: Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a
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Women Are Not OK 0
- Culture
- September 24, 2020
I try not to watch videos that extremely socially maladjusted people have recorded of themselves crying in their cars. They seem to go viral too often. And too often, the subjects are women: women who earnestly believe that abortion is fundamental to female flourishing. Women whose nature has been thwarted, disassembled, and denied by a
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Twenty Lessons From 2020’s Fallout 0
- Economics
- September 24, 2020
This year has been a shock. Here is an early sketch of what I think I’ve learned. Governments are fully capable of doing the unthinkable, and doing so suddenly with no exit plan, little consideration of cost, and a callous disregard for individual rights. The U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights are largely irrelevant when
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History Comes to Call: The 1619 Project Cannot Deny Its Own Past 0
- Culture
- September 24, 2020
History is a harsh mistress when trifled with. Newspaper writers and editors make a profession of turning the present into history, and they acknowledge the dignity of facts with every correction appended to the bottom of their stories. Yet over the last year, the editors of The New York Times’ and Pulitzer Center’s 1619 Project
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Taking the First Step to Restore Civility 0
- Culture
- September 24, 2020
I learned another life lesson from my friend the UPS man the other day. He stopped by with a couple of packages, and in response to my query informed me that yes, the delivery industry was still in Christmas mode, COVID-19 having turned the year into one long, exhausting holiday season. Given the intense nature
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