Culture

‘I Want You to Panic,’ Said Greta, and Panic They Did 0
- Culture
- June 17, 2019
“There is no more any prophet,” is the bitter lament of the Psalmist in the Babylonian Exile. We are more fortunate. Sixteen-year-old Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg has been out-Jeremiah-ing Jeremiah as she criss-crosses Europe lecturing about the imminent catastrophe of climate change. Here’s how she excoriated “the people and prophets and priests” at the World Economic Forum in
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Break Up the Social Media Companies to Protect Free Speech 0
- Culture
- June 17, 2019
Donald Trump is preparing to unleash the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission as antitrust warriors against the tech giants. And good on him. Breaking up the monopolies on speech might save us—particularly anyone right-of-center—from encroaching online deplatforming, and preserve our ability to hear ideas outside echo chambers of bullied consensus. The First Amendment doesn’t restrain censorship
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America: Still the Land of Hope 0
- Culture
- June 17, 2019
“In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men’s reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifetime across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional. Now that blocks good thinking. That is why, in times like ours,
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How a Backflipping Terrier Got Me Reading 0
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- June 17, 2019
My junior year of college saw me making my way through the high points of Greco-Roman literature. Of the works on my reading list, the Odyssey was by far the easiest to navigate. Deftly, I followed Odysseus past the sirens, between Scylla and Charybdis, all the way home to Ithaca. You see, this was a
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Divorced Dads Often Dissed by School 0
- Culture
- June 14, 2019
By the time Father’s Day takes place, the school year is usually over. In many ways, that’s an apt metaphor for how divorced fathers – or fathers who don’t live with their children – get treated by their children’s schools. That is, they’re often simply not seen as part of what takes place at school.
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As Great as a Mom May Be, Kids Still Need Their Dads 1
- Culture
- June 14, 2019
“Smokin’ Joe,” a biography of late heavyweight boxing champion and 3-time Muhammad Ali foil Joe Frazier, was recently reviewed by Gordon Marion in The Wall Street Journal. Among the notable details is the fact that five different women gave birth to Frazier’s eleven kids. This occurrence is not uncommon among celebrities. Muhammad Ali, actor and
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