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Bypass the (Historical) Breakers–Better, Remove Them Altogether

Over the last few days, I’ve finally had the opportunity to dive into historian Sean McMeekin’s voluminous treatment of World War II, Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II. What a treat it has been. McMeekin, a professor at Bard College in upstate New York, is fluent in Turkic and Russian and even…
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Three Cheers (and Three-Peat) for Corruption

In a city famous for NBA three-peats, the new three-peat that has a much higher probability to continue into a dynasty of sorts, is that Chicago again ranks as the most corrupt city in the United States. And, it is not even close. The University of Illinois list of the most graft-ridden metropoleis in America…
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Apart-Hood

“Apartheid” comes from the Afrikaans words for “separateness” or more literally, “apart-hood”. The fact that dimwitted mayors throughout the United States and parliaments in Europe, Australia, New Zealand have embraced apartheid regarding reception of the genetic serums speaks to some remarkable contradictions. The comrades appear oblivious to any of them. Without exception, for decades, these…
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And Now, Covidian: Nazi Comps Are Not Lazy Anymore

Almost without exception, Nazi analogies are lazy and generally inaccurate. But leave it to the Covid totalitarian-hysterics of our time to make them relevant again. It’s not just the marking with masks and the segregation of children in school. Here’s the New Zealand prime minister saying your life as you know it has basically ended…
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Nature–She Is a Sparing Partner at Best

Superstition abounds. You see it all around you in this hysterical age of fear. The person, alone in their car, wearing a soiled, supposed-to-be-disposable mask. Another, feverishly wiping down furniture. So many others believing in every media narrative designed to provoke sheepish, irrational fear. __________ It emerges from a denial of death, or more precisely,…
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