Vulgar to virtue: A case study
(Nov. 15) The degraded nature of public discussion these days surely owes much to people feeling as if they aren’t being heard when they try to speak up respectfully. Last […]
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Twitter-banned, live on Saturday night
(Nov. 1) Twitter, you ignorant slut. The randomness, humorlessness, and cultural tone-deafness of Twitter’s censors is a sight (or maybe a site?) to behold. My Twitter account has been suspended […]
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University of Austin will do college right
(Nov. 9) The best news in academia in a long, long time came with this week’s announcement that distinguished scholars and thinkers are founding a new university “fully committed to […]
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Ten (!) completely unrelated columns
Why it’s okay to chant ‘Let’s Go, Brandon’ (Nov. 1) Series on Clinton impeachment gets at least some things right (Nov. 2) Youngkin won Virginia by being un-Trump-like, thank goodness […]
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Climate awareness need not mean climate alarmism
(Oct. 27) Credit to a tweet by Tony Heller of Real Climate Science for reminding us how climate alarmists have been the Chicken Littles of the modern world for a […]
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Yes, first responders should get vaccines
(Oct. 25) All sides of the debate about vaccine mandates should be more discerning and less absolutist. The radical anti-mandate side, though — the one that opposes such requirements in […]
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Outrageous judge punishes pharmacist for legal opioid prescriptions
(Oct. 20) No matter how often plaintiffs’ attorneys and leftist activists pretend otherwise, it is insanely unfair to blame the opioid epidemic on pharmacists filling otherwise valid prescriptions from licensed physicians. Unfortunately, […]
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Liz Cheney pushes good bill to deter veterans’ suicides
(Oct. 5) Kudos are due to seven former secretaries of Veterans Affairs, as well as U.S. Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Elaine Luria of Virginia, who are pushing to […]
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Fr. Gregory Lucey, in memoriam
(Oct. 5) MOBILE, Alabama — Fr. Gregory Lucey, S.J., who died Sept. 30 at age 88, was living embodiment of how most of life can and should transcend politics, and […]
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Walker Beery’s legacy
(September 9): When 9-year-old Walker Beery died Sept. 4 after a grace-filled two-year battle with brain cancer, he bequeathed to the world a mission of his own devising: raise money […]
