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  • Hindsight is 2020: Moving Forward Post-Pandemic

    Hindsight is 2020: Moving Forward Post-Pandemic0

    In an interview about terrorism, then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld remarked “…there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”

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  • The 2006 Origins of the Lockdown Idea

    The 2006 Origins of the Lockdown Idea0

    Now begins the grand effort, on display in thousands of articles and news broadcasts daily, somehow to normalize the lockdown and all its destruction of the last two months. We didn’t lock down almost the entire country in 1968/69, 1957, or 1949-1952, or even during 1918. But in a terrifying few days in March 2020,

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  • American Prayer in the Midst of Crises

    American Prayer in the Midst of Crises0

    Several weeks ago, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo gave a press conference on – what else? – the coronavirus. The press conference was, like many these days, a discussion of numbers and the problems of reopening the economy, but one statement was a bit startling. Discussing the hopeful sign of plateauing numbers, Cuomo expressed caution

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  • Naming a Biden Cabinet Before the Election Is a Huge Risk

    Naming a Biden Cabinet Before the Election Is a Huge Risk0

    In addition to the rumblings about whom he’ll name as his vice presidential candidate, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden recently surprised many political observers by suggesting that he might also announce the selection of some Cabinet members before November’s election. This would be an unusual move that poses some risks – as well as

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  • Fighting for Liberty in the Age of COVID-19

    Fighting for Liberty in the Age of COVID-190

    It’s about 11 o’clock in the morning on April 19, 1775. Imagine yourself standing in a motley band of 400 people at the North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. You and your neighbors are armed with a variety of firearms, many of you are apprehensive or frightened, and all of you firmly believe that a tyrant

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  • Good Bureaucrats of Good Friday

    Good Bureaucrats of Good Friday0

    Thus spoke Nietzsche: “Must I add that, in the whole New Testament, there appears but a solitary figure worthy of honor? Pilate, the Roman viceroy. To regard a Jewish imbroglio seriously—that was quite beyond him.… The noble scorn of a Roman, before whom the word truth was shamelessly mishandled, enriched the New Testament with the

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