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You Can’t Learn From a History That’s Been Deleted 0
- Culture
- June 19, 2020
The “memory hole” is one of the most haunting images in George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Used by government workers at the Ministry of Truth, this chute in the wall enabled Oceania’s one-party government to edit history at will and incinerate all evidence of their propagandistic deeds: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified,
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Let’s Defund Our Universities 22
- Education
- June 19, 2020
We hear much these days about defunding the police force, about cutting budgets or taking chunks of the public money allotted to our men and women in blue and giving it to social workers and inner-city projects. Here’s a better idea. Let’s defund our colleges and universities. Let’s cut their funding to the bone. I
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Study: COVID Lockdowns Crushed Minority-Owned Businesses the Most 0
- Economics
- June 19, 2020
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, minorities have disproportionately suffered from the virus’s health effects. A new study reveals that the government-mandated economic lockdowns have also hit minorities hardest. In response to the outbreak and under the guidance of federal agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control, state and local governments imposed quarantine
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Tearing Down the Greats and the ‘Democratic Spirit’0
- Culture
- June 19, 2020
Imagine a white male carrying an American flag, wearing a Trump t-shirt, and accessorizing with a MAGA hat. Now imagine him looking at a wall of pictures memorializing various black individuals killed by police – and imagine him doing so within Seattle’s newly established autonomous zone, CHOP. If you think that sounds like a recipe
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Kangaroo Court Nation 0
- Culture
- June 18, 2020
The premise behind much of the protesting we hear in our time from women, African Americans, gays, and other groups granted the special status of being in the minority (how that applies to women, who make up more than half of the population, is hard to see), is that they are to be believed when
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Adam Smith’s Three Moral Principles for Navigating Our National Crisis 0
- Culture
- June 18, 2020
America is on fire. Protestors are burning flags. Rioters are burning cars. And people are metaphorically burning bridges, rendering it impossible to speak across the chasm of political difference. It’s time to pause in burning down our national house. As the Talking Heads warn in their iconic song, “Watch out. You might get what you
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