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  • The Woke Revolution’s Memo on Mass Shootings

    The Woke Revolution’s Memo on Mass Shootings0

    Memo in light of recent events, for the immediate attention of all political and media leaders aligned with the Woke Revolution, which is to say, just about all of them: Mass shootings like those that just took place in Atlanta and Boulder are a tragedy, of course. But they are also one of the best

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  • Figuring Out Your 1960s Stance in One Question

    Figuring Out Your 1960s Stance in One Question1

    The 1960s, according to Carl Oglesby, a former president of Students for a Democratic Society, “will never level out.” “It’s a corkscrew, it’s a tailspin, it’s a joyride on a roller coaster, it’s a never-ending mystery,” he continues. “Who won? Who lost? What were the terms of victory and defeat? We’ll always be discussing that.” I

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  • A Look Behind the Barriers at George Floyd Square

    A Look Behind the Barriers at George Floyd Square0

    In recent days, various reporters have been turned away from the now infamous “George Floyd Square” as they tried to film or report from the scene. The area where Floyd died in May of 2020, setting off a chain reaction of riots across the country, has now become an autonomous, no-go zone, dangerous for any

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  • Work, Marriage, Children: There Is Hope for Millennials

    Work, Marriage, Children: There Is Hope for Millennials0

    Get a job. Get married. Have kids. Those seven words are part of the core message in Charles Murray’s The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Getting Ahead, a book I recommend to young people. Most of us have read these recommendations somewhere as a formula for a successful life, and conservatives in particular advocate this approach as

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  • How to Tell the Difference Between Real Education and Propaganda

    How to Tell the Difference Between Real Education and Propaganda124

    The other day I ran across a passage from That Hideous Strength which seems oddly applicable to our time. A dystopian novel written by C. S. Lewis at the close of World War II, That Hideous Strength finds one of its main characters, Mark Studdock, working for N.I.C.E., an organization which pulls the strings in

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  • Who and What Killed George Floyd?

    Who and What Killed George Floyd?0

    Friday, as the jury was being empaneled for the trial of fired police officer Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis City Council voted 13-0 to approve a record $27 million civil settlement with the family of George Floyd over his death in police custody. The jury will not likely miss this message sent by the city fathers: I.e.,

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