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Americans Need a Lesson From ‘The 1620 Project’0
- History
- September 17, 2020
This week marks a momentous anniversary for the United States. On September 16, 1620, the Pilgrims set off on the voyage which launched the birth of a new nation. Once upon a time, such an anniversary would have been greeted with pomp and circumstance. As Mark David Hall notes in his Chronicles article, “The 1620
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Kenosha’s Return to the State of Nature 0
- Politics
- September 17, 2020
On August 28, lawyers representing accused Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse issued a statement asserting that the 17-year-old “was protecting life and community because his state and local government failed” and that he “was viciously attacked by mob and fearing for his life exercised his God-given and constitutional right to self-defense” when he shot three protestors on the
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The Other Half of the Jacob Blake Conversation 0
- Culture
- September 16, 2020
It’s time to talk about Jacob Blake and policing reform. No, I mean the other half of that conversation. The part where we ask what Jacob Blake did wrong and why it matters. We cannot have meaningful policing reform if we pretend that law enforcement officers do not see our actions as civilians from a
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Elon Musk Goes Full Tony Stark On ‘Modern Day Robber Baron’ Claim 0
- Economics
- September 16, 2020
Tesla founder Elon Musk is often compared to Tony Stark, the self-described “genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist” who fights bad guys in his high-tech “Iron Man” suit in the Marvel movies, as played by Robert Downey, Jr. It’s no wonder, given that Downey, Jr. partially based his characterization of Stark on Musk. The similarities between Musk
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Critical Race Theory Is Just the Tip of Woke Government Training 0
- Education
- September 16, 2020
The Trump Administration put critical race theory on notice this month. The White House issued a directive outlawing the inclusion of exercises based on this theory in government training. “These types of ‘trainings’ not only run counter to the fundamental beliefs for which our Nation has stood since its inception, but they also engender division
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Unplugging From Reality: Have Some of Us Lost Our Minds?0
- Culture
- September 16, 2020
My Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary is no longer new – it was published in 1986 – most of the time my online dictionary suffices. Once in a blue moon, however, I flip open my trusty Webster’s. The word I was hunting this time was psychosis, which this faded red volume defines as “fundamental mental derangement (as paranoia)
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