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  • Bernie Sanders’ Long Game Is Just Beginning

    Bernie Sanders’ Long Game Is Just Beginning0

    The withdrawal of Sen. Bernie Sanders from the Democratic primary left former Vice President Joe Biden as the only major candidate left in the race. As such, he is the presumptive 2020 Democrat presidential nominee for 2020. “I wish I could give you better news, but I think you know the truth,” Sanders said in his

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  • Christ and the Nazi Officer

    Christ and the Nazi Officer0

    Christians, we often hear, are “so heavenly minded that they’re no earthly good.”  To be sure, there is some validity to this criticism. Plenty of Christians allow their faith in divine providence to override their responsibility to care for the world and for their neighbor. The way in which many Christians automatically dismiss all ecological concerns as

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  • The Old Left Wasn’t Very Leftist

    The Old Left Wasn’t Very Leftist2

    While researching a book on antifascism, it became clear to me that the contemporary left has strange ideas about what earlier leftists believed. This is especially true in the ascription of a certain timelessness to intersectional politics, which today’s antifascists are all about. In How Fascism Works by Yale Philosophy Professor Jason Stanley, and in

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  • COVID-19 in the Light of History

    COVID-19 in the Light of History0

    Serious epidemics can have far-reaching social, cultural, and geopolitical consequences. The plague which devastated Athens in 430 BC – in the second year of the Peloponnesian War, when an Athenian victory still seemed within reach – claimed a quarter of the population, some 75,000 people including Pericles. His successors were weak and incompetent, and Athens

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  • Remember the Black Death and Be Thankful This Isn’t It

    Remember the Black Death and Be Thankful This Isn’t It0

    As an example of biomedical catastrophe, the Black Death of the 14th century stands unmatched. The coronavirus, whatever global havoc it might wreak, is not even remotely in its league. During a four-year period between 1347 and 1351, one quarter to one half of Europe’s population died of the plague, with great variations by region.

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  • A Real Crisis Yields Real Politics

    A Real Crisis Yields Real Politics0

    So much of the news cycle and the telegraphed concerns of our commentariat are completely fake. Fake crises like “climate change,” a phone call with the leader of Ukraine, or whether someone used the wrong pronouns tend to dominate the news cycle. The recent Democratic presidential primary is a good example. At one point, the

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