John J. Miller is joined by Paul Rahe of Hillsdale College to discuss Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron.
Episode 136: The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
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The Left’s Culture War Cancels the Humble Along with the Mighty
You don’t have to be a celebrity, or an elite of the literary or journalistic realm, to be canceled. But the struggles of ordinary people who are being forced to suffer for not kowtowing to the Black Lives Matter movement or for voting for the wrong candidate don’t get noticed nearly as often. As illustrated ...
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The Left’s Culture War Cancels the Humble Along with the Mighty
You don’t have to be a celebrity, or an elite of the literary or journalistic realm, to be canceled. But the struggles of ordinary people who are being forced to suffer for not kowtowing to the Black Lives Matter movement or for voting for the wrong candidate don’t get noticed nearly as often. As illustrated ...
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The Absolute Emptiness of ‘MAGA’ and ‘Black Lives Matter’
The two most powerful political slogans of our era are “Make America Great Again”, and “Black Lives Matter.” Both of them, once uttered, seemed to invite immediate, obvious, simple-minded rejoinders. “America is already great,” say Trump’s opponents. “All Lives Matter,” say those who are made ...
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The Absolute Emptiness of ‘MAGA’ and ‘Black Lives Matter’
The two most powerful political slogans of our era are “Make America Great Again”, and “Black Lives Matter.” Both of them, once uttered, seemed to invite immediate, obvious, simple-minded rejoinders. “America is already great,” say Trump’s opponents. “All Lives Matter,” say those who are made ...
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Research: One Group Spread 65 Percent of All COVID-19 Cases across US
Thousands of travelers carried the coronavirus from New York around the United States in early March, triggering most of the new cases that erupted nationwide.
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Research: One Group Spread 65 Percent of All COVID-19 Cases across US
Thousands of travelers carried the coronavirus from New York around the United States in early March, triggering most of the new cases that erupted nationwide.
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Biden Says He Would Rescind Exemption for Little Sisters of the Poor
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden issued a statement Wednesday evening in which he said he is “disappointed in today's U.S. Supreme Court decision” in the case Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania.
“I will restore the Obama-Biden policy that existed before the [2014 Supreme ...
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Biden Says He Would Rescind Exemption for Little Sisters of the Poor
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden issued a statement Wednesday evening in which he said he is “disappointed in today's U.S. Supreme Court decision” in the case Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania.
“I will restore the Obama-Biden policy that existed before the [2014 Supreme ...
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No One Is Ever Woke Enough
Closing out the week: The Harper’s letter calling for freedom of expression demonstrates that no one is ever “woke” enough, and that any institution that tries to make peace with the perpetually aggrieved eventually becomes dysfunctional; the value of Hamilton as a litmus test of the limits of cancel ...
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No One Is Ever Woke Enough
Closing out the week: The Harper’s letter calling for freedom of expression demonstrates that no one is ever “woke” enough, and that any institution that tries to make peace with the perpetually aggrieved eventually becomes dysfunctional; the value of Hamilton as a litmus test of the limits of cancel ...
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AOC, Julián Castro Lead Calls to Boycott Goya Foods after CEO Praises Trump
The CEO of Goya Foods, which says it’s the country’s largest Hispanic-owned food company, has landed in hot water with Democrats after praising President Trump during a visit to the White House Thursday.
“We're all truly blessed at the same time to have a leader like President Trump, who is a ...
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AOC, Julián Castro Lead Calls to Boycott Goya Foods after CEO Praises Trump
The CEO of Goya Foods, which says it’s the country’s largest Hispanic-owned food company, has landed in hot water with Democrats after praising President Trump during a visit to the White House Thursday.
“We're all truly blessed at the same time to have a leader like President Trump, who is a ...
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New Flynn Notes: ‘FBI Leadership’ Decided Not to Provide Russian Call Transcripts to Flynn in Interview
Newly released documents in the Michael Flynn case include a January 2017 DOJ draft memo that states “FBI leadership” decided against showing Flynn transcripts of his calls with the Russian ambassador in the White House interview that led to his guilty plea.
The DOJ document, dated January 30, 2017 — ...
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New Flynn Notes: ‘FBI Leadership’ Decided Not to Provide Russian Call Transcripts to Flynn in Interview
Newly released documents in the Michael Flynn case include a January 2017 DOJ draft memo that states “FBI leadership” decided against showing Flynn transcripts of his calls with the Russian ambassador in the White House interview that led to his guilty plea.
The DOJ document, dated January 30, 2017 — ...
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AG Barr Raises Concerns Over ‘Widespread Phenomenon’ of Black Males Facing Disproportionate Policing
Attorney General William Barr revealed Wednesday that he believes the country has “a widespread phenomenon” of African American men being unduly treated poorly by the police, adding that “it’s something we have to address.”
“I do think it is a widespread phenomenon that African American males, in ...
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AG Barr Raises Concerns Over ‘Widespread Phenomenon’ of Black Males Facing Disproportionate Policing
Attorney General William Barr revealed Wednesday that he believes the country has “a widespread phenomenon” of African American men being unduly treated poorly by the police, adding that “it’s something we have to address.”
“I do think it is a widespread phenomenon that African American males, in ...
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It’s Come to This — We Must Defend Matt Yglesias
Oh, for goodness’ sake, they’re going to make us defend Matthew @#$%&!ing Yglesias.
We can think of a dozen reasons to criticize Yglesias, but the Vox writer currently is under fire for signing a letter critical of “cancel culture.” For criticizing cancel culture, Yglesias might very well end up ...
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It’s Come to This — We Must Defend Matt Yglesias
Oh, for goodness’ sake, they’re going to make us defend Matthew @#$%&!ing Yglesias.
We can think of a dozen reasons to criticize Yglesias, but the Vox writer currently is under fire for signing a letter critical of “cancel culture.” For criticizing cancel culture, Yglesias might very well end up ...
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The Winds of Woke
Before Thursday morning I had not heard of Thomas Bosco, and I am willing to bet you haven’t heard of him either. He runs a café in Upper Manhattan. From the picture in the New York Times, the Indian Road Café is one of those Bobo-friendly brick-lined coffee shops with chalkboard menus affixed to the wall ...
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The Winds of Woke
Before Thursday morning I had not heard of Thomas Bosco, and I am willing to bet you haven’t heard of him either. He runs a café in Upper Manhattan. From the picture in the New York Times, the Indian Road Café is one of those Bobo-friendly brick-lined coffee shops with chalkboard menus affixed to the wall ...
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