Trends in Society
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June 15th, 2021
WOKE brain
Wokeism has become our most popular secular religion—at least for a moment dethroning climate change. It reduces all of the past and present into puerile binaries between “whites” and “non-whites.”
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June 15th, 2021
Franklin Face from $100 bill
The Federal Reserve reportedly told employees to cease using gendered pronouns and other “biased terms” — including “Founding Fathers,” “blacklist,” and “manmade.”
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June 13th, 2021
cars headed to woodstock
Starry-eyed radicals in the 1960s and 1970s dreamed that they either were going to take over America or destroy it.
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June 13th, 2021
argument-trump-policy-manhattan
Would I be wrong to say there is incivility in American life? It’s not so much — not in my experience — a lack of cordiality in one’s own neighborhood.
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June 10th, 2021
Minimum Wage
There may be a method to President Joe Biden’s madness. Or maybe there’s just a madness to his method.
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June 9th, 2021
https://stream.org/not-enough-fingers-to-plug-up-all-the-holes-in-the-dike/
If you are actively involved in the culture wars, trying to stem the tide of moral decline, you can often feel like the boy who tried to plug the holes in the dike with his own fingers.
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June 3rd, 2021
Dr. Fauci with NIH mask
I know what you’re thinking: This should be the world’s shortest column, right? If it comes from the “mainstream,” “legacy,” or “corporate” media—whichever term you prefer—it’s probably false.
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June 2nd, 2021
Ibram X. Kendi author
As the origins of our current moral panic about “white supremacy” become more widely debated, we have an obvious problem: how to define the term “Critical Race Theory.”
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May 28th, 2021
empty mic students
Critical race theory proponents frequently say you won’t oppose them unless you’re an ignorant racist. They’re gaslighting you.
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May 28th, 2021
Ron Desantis FL Gov
“I have also come across a lot of people who, quite frankly, were Democrats, but lockdowns turned them into Republicans,” DeSantis said.
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