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  • When Censorship’s the Game, Despotism Is the Goal

    When Censorship’s the Game, Despotism Is the Goal0

    We’re only a few months beyond the turn of the calendar and already I have a candidate for the word of the year: Censorship. Examples are proliferating at such a fast rate that it seems like a game of whac-a-mole just to keep up with all of them. A few of the most recent include:

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  • The False Philanthropy Charade

    The False Philanthropy Charade0

    Someone’s head must have rolled at the Aspen Institute when Anand Giridharadas’ book came out. Giridharadas didn’t miss a rung as he climbed the American establishment’s social ladder: born in Shaker Heights, schooled at Sidwell Friends, the University of Michigan, and Harvard, employed at McKinsey, the International Herald Tribune, and The New York Times, and mic’d up

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  • Sound Reason Is Missing in Action

    Sound Reason Is Missing in Action0

    In a recent article for Intellectual Takeout, I looked at possible explanations for an apparent decline in IQ averages in Europe and America. Since then, I have begun to wonder whether this drop in intelligence might play a part in some of the goofy programs coming out of Washington D.C. of late, and in our inability to exchange

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  • Who Dominates Whom?

    Who Dominates Whom?0

    Recent broadsides from the French government, and most conspicuously from French President Emmanuel Macron, against the American woke Left and U.S. cancel culture drew a mixed reaction from me. Frankly, I find no reason as a European historian to believe that French journalists and academics are any less infected than our own with political correctness.

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  • Thinking Free While Living With the Establishment

    Thinking Free While Living With the Establishment0

    This week I celebrated my 70th birthday. I like the sound of 70. In terms of human years that number seems possessed of dignity and wisdom, and though I may lack both attributes, 70 provides a façade leading others to think that age has endowed me with these prizes. Regardless, I have reached the age when

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  • Arranged or Not, Marriage Is Serious Business

    Arranged or Not, Marriage Is Serious Business0

    Nearly every Wednesday night for the past seven years I’ve watched Married at First Sight, a reality show which finds expertly matched couples meeting each other at the altar. My wife finds it inexpressibly tasteless, and two of my daughters who watched it with me, each once, expressed irritation that I made them sit through

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