Half a century ago, before “Sesame Street,” and long before the age of quarantine, kids under the age of six spent a crazy amount of time indoors, watching television, a bleary-eyed average of fifty-four hours[…]
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Month: July 2020
“…the most morally instructive thing about studying the Nazis now: we can see how tightly the elimination of the Jews was bound to a hatred of cosmopolitanism”
In the nineteenth century, they arrived, before anyone else, at an understanding that, in the new world of modernity, competitive advancement—doing well on exams—would provide an alternative to advancement through bloodlines. Why the Jews did[…]
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“The point of a race-riot commission…is for the government that appoints it to appear to be doing something, while actually doing nothing”
White mob violence against black people and their homes and businesses was the far more common variety of race riot, from the first rising of the K.K.K., after the Civil War, through the second, in[…]
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“I, like many who enjoy an adult beverage then and again, have to ask myself fairly regularly about my relationship with it. Is it healthy? Is it proper?”
I, like many who enjoy an adult beverage then and again, have to ask myself fairly regularly about my relationship with it. Is it healthy? Is it proper? Some people use alcohol as an escape,[…]
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