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The Ignoble Lie

October 29, 2021 0

“Noble lies” are rarely spun for anyone’s interests other than those of the liars themselves By Victor Davis Hanson In a controversial passage in Plato’s Republic, Socrates introduced the idea of the “noble lie” (“gennaios pseudos”). A majestic […]

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Revolt of the Essential Workers

October 28, 2021 0

The resurgent labor movement may be the greatest challenge yet to the top-down class warfare of the pandemic era BY ALEX GUTENTAG Back before the COVID-19 pandemic started, the year 2019 saw anti-government demonstrations in Paris, Manila, La Paz, Port-au-Prince, Bogotá, Prague, Quito , Beirut, Hong […]

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The gaslighting of America

October 26, 2021 0

By Bob Weir I remember a comedy skit several years ago in which a woman comes home unexpectedly and finds her husband in bed with another woman.  Shocked, she demands to know who the woman is and […]

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Where Stuff Comes From

October 21, 2021 0

Doomberg   “this dovetails in sinister fashion with the basic idea that any sufficiently advanced technology cannot be distinguished from magic. highly evolved capitalism becomes such a technology and the largess and plenty it produces […]

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The Frightened Class

October 20, 2021 0

BY THOMAS HARRINGTON  hey’re all around us, especially those of us who live in relatively prosperous metropolitan neighborhoods in the US or Western Europe. Despite being—at least in material terms—among the most fortunate people who have […]

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Let Us Count the Ways

October 19, 2021 0

What America really wants to know is: after those months of “family leave,” did Pete Buttigieg get the hang of lactating? Hey, if sexuality is just a “social construct,” then the functions of sexuality must […]

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The Golden Age of America

October 11, 2021 0

By Walt Garlington for the Saker Blog Mr Paul Gottfried gives us a standard line about the need to return to the Golden Age of the American republic at the end of a short book review […]

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