Culture

2000 and 2020 0
- Culture
- April 21, 2020
There was real panic in the air 20 years ago. The “Y2K bug” was a deceptively simple flaw in older mainframes and software. It coded the year portion of dates with two digits, but this flaw would face a reckoning upon the turn of the millennium, as 2000 would now only be rendered as “00.”
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Epidemiologist: Individual Responsibility Is Flattening Sweden’s COVID Curve 0
- Culture
- April 21, 2020
Sweden may be on to something. Bloomberg reports: Sweden’s unusual approach to fighting the coronavirus pandemic is starting to yield results, according to the country’s top epidemiologist. Anders Tegnell, the architect behind Sweden’s relatively relaxed response to Covid-19, told local media the latest figures on infection rates and fatalities indicate the situation is starting to
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What We Sacrifice in the Pursuit of Immortality 0
- Culture
- April 20, 2020
“Is the first person who will live to 150 alive today?” asked a recent Wall Street Journal article. The piece features biology Professor Steven Austad who contends that “today’s college students… can expect to live a century or more because their health will be unlike anything seen before in human history.” I had to suppress
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Five Things Harvard’s Critique of Homeschooling Gets Wrong 0
- Culture
- April 20, 2020
Author’s Note: This is a copy of my submitted Letter to the Editor of Harvard Magazine regarding its recent article,“The Risks of Homeschooling.” Dear Editor: As a Harvard alum, longtime donor, education researcher, and homeschooling mother of four children in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I was shocked to read the article, “The Risks of Homeschooling,” by Erin
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China Increasingly Controls Information as It Slides Deeper Into Authoritarianism 0
- Culture
- April 20, 2020
Recent revelations about the depth and consequences of China’s suppression of information in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic should shine a light on the nature of the country’s regime. China’s communist government has been tyrannical for more than 70 years, but perhaps surprising to some, it actually has become more authoritarian in recent
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AOC’s Baseless Accusation That the U.S. Is a ‘Brutal, Barbarian Society’0
- Culture
- April 17, 2020
According to democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the COVID-19 pandemic is proving that the United States “is a brutal, barbarian society for the vast majority of working-class Americans.” As evidence of this, she claims that “40% of us couldn’t even afford a $400 emergency” before this crisis, and COVID-19 “is more than a $400 emergency.” However,
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