Culture

Bari Weiss Cancels the NYT, Avoiding the PC Guillotine 0
- Culture
- July 15, 2020
Cancel culture has claimed another scalp. Only this time, things are a little different. Bari Weiss, an editor for The New York Times, has announced her resignation from the famed newspaper. Contrary to what usually happens in these situations, Weiss is not being forced out due to an ill-stated Tweet or a passing comment perceived
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‘Cancel Culture’ Claims Hagia Sophia 0
- Culture
- July 15, 2020
The latest outbreak of “cancel culture” overshadows debates over President Trump’s Twitter feed and defacing statues of Confederate generals. Turkey’s President Erdogan has turned the biggest tourist attraction in Turkey from a museum into a mosque. This is not just any museum; nor will it be just any mosque. It began in 537 as the
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Media Jihad Against Sweden’s COVID-19 Approach Ignores Key Facts 0
- Culture
- July 15, 2020
As soon as it became clear that the Swedish state had no plans to implement harsh lockdowns, global media organizations like The New York Times have implemented what can only be described as an ideological jihad against Sweden. For many weeks, there has been an incessant drumbeat of articles with titles touting the “the failure
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The Shirking Pandemic: How Politicians Pass the Buck 0
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- July 15, 2020
An elderly couple in my home state of North Carolina, married for over fifty years, has been forcibly separated by their nursing home for three months. The husband, now despondent, says he doesn’t want to live anymore if he can’t be with his bride. When pressed about this inhumane policy by a North Carolina legislator
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COVID Lockdowns Led to a ‘Hidden Epidemic’ of Drug Overdoses 0
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- July 14, 2020
Bodies are arriving at Anahi Ortiz’s office faster than he can process them. “We’ve literally run out of wheeled carts to put them on,” Ortiz, a coroner in Columbus, Ohio, recently told The Washington Post. The cause of death isn’t the coronavirus, however. It’s drug overdoses. Ortiz says sometimes his office will get as many as
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Why Some Revolutions Fail 0
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- July 14, 2020
Soon after the start of the French Revolution on July 14, 1789, the English statesman Edmund Burke saw storm clouds on the horizon. Under the banner of “liberty, equality, and fraternity,” the French revolutionaries not only attacked the dreaded Bastille prison in Paris. They assaulted the most important historic institutions in France: the monarchy, the
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