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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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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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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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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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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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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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Inching Back toward the Rule of Law
Conservatives typically have one of two reactions to the headlines in left-leaning publications: Ninety percent of the time, we cringe at the presumption on display, but 10 percent of the time, we wish they were true.
“The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Are Ready to Take a Wrecking Ball to the Entire ...
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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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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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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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