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Three Cheers for the Quiet Ones
People often dismiss shy, quiet characters in literature. Readers prefer to identify with Jo March, Elizabeth Bennett, or Anne Shirley -- those delightful, bold, and charming characters who made a deep impression on us when we first encountered them. While there’s nothing wrong with emulating or admiring these ...
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Three Cheers for the Quiet Ones
People often dismiss shy, quiet characters in literature. Readers prefer to identify with Jo March, Elizabeth Bennett, or Anne Shirley -- those delightful, bold, and charming characters who made a deep impression on us when we first encountered them. While there’s nothing wrong with emulating or admiring these ...
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Monumental Misdirection at the Mellon Foundation
Most monuments are boringly bad, aesthetically mediocre, and engaging mostly when pigeons, unimpressed by great causes or men, do what pigeons do to outdoor art. Their judgments are ecumenical and evacuational.
Pigeons also would probably disagree with me on one point. We have too many monuments. You’d think ...
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Monumental Misdirection at the Mellon Foundation
Most monuments are boringly bad, aesthetically mediocre, and engaging mostly when pigeons, unimpressed by great causes or men, do what pigeons do to outdoor art. Their judgments are ecumenical and evacuational.
Pigeons also would probably disagree with me on one point. We have too many monuments. You’d think ...
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Fox News Ratings Tumble as Trump Supports Other Networks
The dip came after President Trump retweeted support for its rival news networks.
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Fox News Ratings Tumble as Trump Supports Other Networks
The dip came after President Trump retweeted support for its rival news networks.
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Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy at Ten
Kanye West. The words alone are charged nowadays -- and have been for some time. Few other figures in public life have such a record of fame and infamy -- often at the same time -- in the 21st century as this highly visible musician. He continues to find new ways to keep himself in the headlines, as in recent ...
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Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy at Ten
Kanye West. The words alone are charged nowadays -- and have been for some time. Few other figures in public life have such a record of fame and infamy -- often at the same time -- in the 21st century as this highly visible musician. He continues to find new ways to keep himself in the headlines, as in recent ...
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Pompeo Rejects the ‘America Alone’ Narrative
President Trump’s combative and defiant brand of nationalism enraged his critics — some within his own administration — as much as it buoyed his base. The narrative, which calcified to a stubborn degree these past four years, was that he coddled adversaries and cold-shouldered allies, leaving America ...
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Pompeo Rejects the ‘America Alone’ Narrative
President Trump’s combative and defiant brand of nationalism enraged his critics — some within his own administration — as much as it buoyed his base. The narrative, which calcified to a stubborn degree these past four years, was that he coddled adversaries and cold-shouldered allies, leaving America ...
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New England Journal of Medicine Pushes Reparations
Reparations would grant African Americans government benefits not paid to other Americans to rectify the awful sin of slavery and the "peculiar institution's" residual harm. It is a favored policy of hard progressives, so of course, the New England Journal of Medicine -- which regularly promotes left-wing causes ...
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New England Journal of Medicine Pushes Reparations
Reparations would grant African Americans government benefits not paid to other Americans to rectify the awful sin of slavery and the "peculiar institution's" residual harm. It is a favored policy of hard progressives, so of course, the New England Journal of Medicine -- which regularly promotes left-wing causes ...
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Wajahat Ali, Ctd.
I gather he didn’t like my comment on his New York Times op-ed on the folly of reaching out to Trump supporters. He snipes, “I await The National Review’s piece on reaching out to Biden voters and reading about their ‘elegy’ and understanding their ‘economic anxiety.’”
After the 2016 election, ...
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Wajahat Ali, Ctd.
I gather he didn’t like my comment on his New York Times op-ed on the folly of reaching out to Trump supporters. He snipes, “I await The National Review’s piece on reaching out to Biden voters and reading about their ‘elegy’ and understanding their ‘economic anxiety.’”
After the 2016 election, ...
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College Administrators Are Not Letting the COVID Crisis Go to Waste
Those who like power and privilege see crises as opportunities to get more of what they want. That includes politicians and bureaucrats, of course, but also college administrators.
In today's Martin Center article, Neetu Arnold of the National Association of Scholars looks at the ways higher education leaders ...
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College Administrators Are Not Letting the COVID Crisis Go to Waste
Those who like power and privilege see crises as opportunities to get more of what they want. That includes politicians and bureaucrats, of course, but also college administrators.
In today's Martin Center article, Neetu Arnold of the National Association of Scholars looks at the ways higher education leaders ...
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The Imaginary Trump
Like Andrew Jackson, Donald Trump is man who represents the age in which he lived. Whatever you may think of the age. Jackson embodied a generation of men who had risen and made their mark in a young country. He represented their desire for greater representation, even if it had costs for slaves and Indians. He ...
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The Imaginary Trump
Like Andrew Jackson, Donald Trump is man who represents the age in which he lived. Whatever you may think of the age. Jackson embodied a generation of men who had risen and made their mark in a young country. He represented their desire for greater representation, even if it had costs for slaves and Indians. He ...
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Shopping Superstitions
It’s the boss-bossiest time of the year, when Americans getting ready to open up their wallets to buy Christmas presents are lectured by illiterate halfwits about where and how to spend their money. The usual demands: Buy local, or buy from small businesses.
This is pure nonsense, and you should feel free to ...
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Shopping Superstitions
It’s the boss-bossiest time of the year, when Americans getting ready to open up their wallets to buy Christmas presents are lectured by illiterate halfwits about where and how to spend their money. The usual demands: Buy local, or buy from small businesses.
This is pure nonsense, and you should feel free to ...
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