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Gulag Archipelago Turns 50
G.W. Thielman writes for the Federalist about a major anniversary for an important book in the fight against the inescapable evil of Soviet communism. Just after Christmas 50 years ago,…
The Gulag Archipelago
1973 essay by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Education
The need for more, not less, history
Wilfred McClay writes for the Federalist about restoring America’s legacy by boosting understanding of world history. When we celebrate the Fourth, we’re not only observing our nation’s birthday. We’re also…
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Facts: may they ever be stubborn and bothersome
View in your browser. "Facts are stubborn things," future president John Adams said in court. The occasion for Adam’s observation is noteworthy, because Adams had taken the highly unpopular, personally…
Health Care
Identity thieves: The Obamacare world is their oyster, and a Friday recipe
“Obamacare is here. There’s nothing to fear and plenty to cheer,” The News & Observer editorial board predictably squealed as the rollout drew nigh. Meanwhile, responsible publications, such as Forbes,…
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Re: Global warming and the totalitarian impulse
Sanera’s quotation of C.S. Lewis in response to George’s post brings to mind a quotation from another rare moral voice of the 20th century. Lewis concluded that “those who torment…
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies
Most great books are built around a single idea. Even a book of hundreds of pages, like, say, Sophie’s Choice, comes down to one idea: having to choose between your…
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My latest: Dixie Chicks, dissent, and “whacked” paranoia
Posted at TownHall.com. A teaser: But it’s all vanity. Hart’s comments, the “musical martyrs,” the paranoia ? it’s just self-congratulatory hooey. Musicians aren’t getting “whacked” by the Bush administration for…
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Re: I’ve been tagged (the One Book Meme Game)
Well, now that I’ve got some time, George, I’ll play along, too: 1. One book that changed my life: The Ultimate Resource 2, by Julian Simon. It made tangible the…
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Those perplexing Marxist “Loyalists” ? now and then
I have expressed my bewilderment at American academics who persist in being Marxists despite the long, bleak and horrific history of societies that adopted Marxism. All of that would seem…
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So WPTF’s Bill Lumaye asked why academics so quickly give a pass to Communists
That’s a question I’ve often asked, too. Why do so many academics harbor this lingering wistfulness about Communism? Academics join the rest of us in rightly condemning Nazis and Naziism…
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Re: Religious pluralism, archaic concept that it is
Bill, that was a wonderful post on a very troubling issue. The secularist movement in this nation has succeeded in promulgating the idea that any religious expression is a potential…
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Satire of school antipathy to prayer deemed (naturally) a prayer
From Athens, Ga.: The principal of Cedar Shoals High School apologized Monday for reading a poem called “The New School Prayer” over the school’s intercom, which brought complaints from some…