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Jerry Seinfeld’s Advice for Marital Happiness 0
- Culture
- June 29, 2020
Sensing the strain COVID-19 lockdowns have brought to marriages, many are eager to offer advice. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld didn’t get married until he was 45 years old. In his Netflix special 23 Hours to Kill, (filmed before COVID-19) he wonders how he went from a “regular bachelor guy” to happily married with children. Seinfeld advises, “A man
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Trump Is Failing to Protect America’s Heritage 0
- Culture
- June 29, 2020
The last few weeks have seen a nonstop explosion of disorder, violence, and hostility to America and its history. The message is plain: the old America was bad to its core, worthy of no respect, and therefore its heroes, history, and heritage must be paved over to make way for a new order. President Trump
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Don’t Cheer Woodrow Wilson’s Cancelation 0
- Culture
- June 29, 2020
First things first: Woodrow Wilson was a deplorable bigot and one of the worst presidents in American history. He re-segregated the federal government, glamorized the Ku Klux Klan, screened The Birth of a Nation at the White House, and opposed Reconstruction and black suffrage (Dylan Matthews has more on Wilson’s racism). In common with many
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Environmentalist: We’ve Misled the Public on Climate Change 0
- Culture
- June 29, 2020
Greta has disappeared. Not entirely, mind you. The official Greta Thunberg Twitter account is still functioning, detailing her continued school strike, her admonitions to stay home, and her enthusiasm for flattening the curve. But in effect, Greta Thunberg disappeared as the world decided it had better things to worry about than climate change. As it
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In Defense of the Freedom to Be Wrong 0
- Education
- June 26, 2020
It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks. –Tacitus It’s very important for institutions of concentrated power to keep people alone and isolated: that way they’re ineffective, they can’t defend themselves against indoctrination, they can’t even figure out what they think. –Noam Chomsky
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California Senate Opens Door to Legalized Discrimination 0
- History
- June 26, 2020
On November 5, 1996, Californians headed to the ballot box to weigh in on the California Civil Rights Initiative – aka Proposition 209 – to end government discrimination. The measure, modeled on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, read: “The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group, on the basis of race,
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