Government shouldn't ban everything that can conquer the will. But at the very least, they shouldn't contribute to taking away people's agency.
Like the France of the Olympic opening ceremony, Harris wants to recreate herself anew, forgetting the inconvenient past in favor of the radical future.
George Orwell’s name, to me, evokes memories of 10th grade as I sat, uncomfortably, in a small wooden desk on the second floor of my un-airconditioned high school in a rural farming town in eastern North Carolina, about as far away from dystopia as one could imagine. Maria — whose curly blond hair and mischievous,...
When Morgan Reaves heard his sister Elizabeth chattering about the man she saw playing around atop Chimney Rock, he had plenty of reasons not to believe her. People just didn’t go climbing such steep cliffs, not in 1806 and certainly not for simple recreation. Morgan knew there wasn’t anything worth collecting on the small summit...
What’s controversial about saying one race or sex is not inherently greater than another?
The undercounted cost of the COVID pandemic is in the lives lost to despair, addiction, suicide, and other illnesses. Whether people have voluntarily cut off ties, albeit after government officials suggested shutting down for two weeks in March to “flatten the curve,” or were forced to do it by their employer or a government mandate,...
It doesn't make sense to pretend that now-tainted events never took place.
Everyone seems to be talking about fake news these days. Enabled by social media, its originators deal in hoaxes and disinformation. The objectives vary, with some wishing merely to sow confusion, others attempting to influence behavior. The intention is always, however, to mislead. Fake news is old. Benjamin Franklin created a fictional story about Indian...
In a chilling flashback to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, a teacher is disciplined for uttering a forbidden word.
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