Culture

A Free Press No More: Thoughts on America’s Enslaved Journalists 0
- Culture
- July 23, 2020
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes” is Latin for “Who will guard the guardians themselves?” Once upon a time the guardians of freedom and fair play in America were members of the fourth estate: the press. Earlier generations thought of reporters and journalists as watchdogs, keeping their eyes on the machinations of government and rooting out corruption,
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Elon Musk’s Economic Truth Bomb to Joe Rogan 0
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- July 22, 2020
Elon Musk dropped an economic truth bomb on Joe Rogan’s podcast a couple of months ago. “If you don’t make stuff, there’s no stuff.” Obvious? You’d think so. But, as Musk pointed out, our economic policies throughout the COVID-19 pandemic have ignored that simple truth. The prevailing assumption is that the government can press “pause”
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The Transgender Craze Is Creating Thousands of Young Victims 0
- Culture
- July 22, 2020
Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, Abigail Shrier, Regnery Publishing, 287 pp. In 2014, TIME magazine featured transgender actor Laverne Cox on the cover under the title “The Transgender Tipping Point.” A year later, in 2015, CNN announced the formal arrival of our “transgender moment.” In June of that year, Caitlyn Jenner’s Vanity
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Training Activists One Pandering Letter at a Time 0
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- July 21, 2020
The nation’s two major public-school teachers’ unions may be rivals of sorts, but they apparently are in agreement on at least one important and troubling matter. In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, the presidents of these two organizations placed an ad in newspapers across the country, labeling it a “message to our students.” Signed
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I’m a Black Man and I Don’t Support Georgia’s New Hate Crime Law 0
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- July 21, 2020
There’s an unavoidable truth that drives all political calculations: When a politically expeditious moment presents itself, politicians will seize upon it even at the risk of their convictions and credibility. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is the latest practitioner of such political opportunism. On June 26, in response to the death of Ahmed Arbery, Kemp, a
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‘Childfree’ May Not Be as Freeing as It Sounds 0
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- July 21, 2020
As The Guardian UK runs a whole series on being childfree, I wonder where they’ve put all the articles that make the case for having kids. Of course there are many reasons for choosing not to have a baby, but somehow we live in a world where that opinion seems more educated and high-minded than
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