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America’s Most Educated, Engaged Citizens Are Making Politics Worse
The More in Common project has just released the results of its latest deep dive into American polarization, and they make for a deeply discouraging read.
It turns out that most Americans have fundamentally mistaken notions about their political opponents, consistently believing that they are substantially ...
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The Cowardly Incoherence of Name-Changing, Statue-Toppling, and other Iconoclasms
My undergraduate alma mater, UC Santa Cruz, recently agreed to remove a mission bell donated years ago by a local women’s club.
The university ceded to the wishes of one Valentin Lopez. He is the chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band.
Val brought forth concerns to us about the symbolism of the bell. He ...
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Culture with Kat Timpf: 16-Year-Old Girl Shouldn’t Face Child-Porn Charges
Kat Timpf explains why a 16-year-old Maryland girl shouldn't be charged with child-porn distribution after making a video of herself.
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Angela Rye Knows You’re Racist
The political philosopher Michael Oakeshott said that the “rationalist” is hopelessly lost in ideology, captivated by the world of self-contained coherence he has woven from strands of human experience. He concocts a narrative about narratives, a story about stories, and adheres to the “large outline which ...
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Clue Hidden in Website Code Fuels Speculation on Rep. Omar’s Marital History
Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) has long dismissed the accusation that she married her brother in order to skirt U.S. immigration law, but a clue uncovered in the source code of her sister's website suggests that the freshman congresswoman may have perjured herself to hide her ex-husband's whereabouts when ...
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What the Viral Border-Patrol Video Leaves Out
In an attempt to justify Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s absurd comparison of American detention facilities to Holocaust-era concentration camps, many figures within the media have shared a viral video clip of a legal hearing in which a Department of Justice attorney debates a panel of judges as to what constitutes ...
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Wealth Taxes and Income Inequality, and Buffoonery
Eli Broad has written a column for the New York Times that manages to be wrong at almost every opportunity it has to be wrong — economically, politically, grammatically, etc. It’s really quite something.
Broad writes: “I’ve come to realize that no amount of philanthropic commitment will compensate for ...
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Pro-Abortion Nonsense from John Irving
The novelist has put up a lot of easy targets in his New York Times op-ed. I am going to take aim at six of his points, starting with his strongest one.
First: Irving asserts that abortion was legal in our country from Puritan times until the 1840s, at least before “quickening.” That’s an overstatement. ...
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A Scathing Denunciation of Some Administration’s Immigration Enforcement
The PBS Frontline special entitled “Lost In Detention” represents a scathing indictment of the administration’s immigration policy. The yearlong investigation did an extensive and deep dive into the U.S. immigration enforcement system and stories of hidden abuse in detention centers.
The nearly hourlong ...
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Murder Mystery: An Old Comedy Genre Gets Polished Up
I like Adam Sandler, and yet you may share the sense of trepidation I get when I see that another of his movies is out. He made some very funny manboy comedies (Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, The Waterboy) followed by some not-so-funny manboy comedies, and when he went dark, in Reign over Me and Funny People, ...
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