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- Quillette Editors’ Choice of 2024 December 21, 2024Jamie, Jon, Iona, and Claire share their favourite essays from this year.Quillette
- Podcast #264: A Theory of Everyone December 21, 2024Iona Italia talks to cultural evolutionary theorist Michael Muthukrishna, author of ‘A Theory of Everyone,’ about the human dual inheritance—part inherited, part taught—and about how energy availability underpins everything.Quillette
- From Skies to Screens December 20, 2024Our experience of the world is increasingly mediated by digital technology. This is stripping us of our sense that the physical landscape is infused with meaning.Robert Huddleston
- Quillette Editors’ Choice of 2024 December 21, 2024
- Jay Nordlinger
- Roads of Poetry December 20, 2024Reader mail about poems, memorized.Jay Nordlinger
- Poems by Heart, Cont. December 20, 2024Writers tell of poems they have memorized, would like to memorize, etc.Jay Nordlinger
- A Man of Parts December 19, 2024WFB was big, devouring life, and brightening it.Jay Nordlinger
- Roads of Poetry December 20, 2024
Tag Archives: pandemic
The Education Scam
The Wall Street Journal has published a story on student test performance in the wake of Covid inspired school shutdowns. According to the story, “American children started school this fall significantly behind expectations in math, and modestly behind in some … Continue reading
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Tagged covid, Education Secretary, Joe Biden, pandemic, Public Schools, Randi Weingarten, School Shutdowns, test scores
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The Fat Lady is Warming Up
It is now mid November. Apparently though, no one has gotten around to telling President Trump that the presidential election is over and done with and that he lost. While no one disputes his right to seek legal remedies for … Continue reading
What Do We Really Know about COVID-19?
A fascinating conversation between Reason Magazine’s Nick Gillespie and Science Correspondent Ron Bailey. See below. JFB
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Tagged Corona Virus, Covid-19, Libertarianism, Nick Gillespie, pandemic, Public Health, public policy, Reason Magazine, Ron Bailey, Science
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Why is there a Shortage of Medical Equipment to Fight COVID-19?
Gary Becker, a Nobel Prize winning economist from the University of Chicago was once asked what government’s mainly produces. “Lines” he replied. So here we are in March 2020 with the economy screeching to a halt and citizens staying in … Continue reading
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Tagged bureaucracy, Corona Virus, Covid-19, health care, John Stossel, pandemic, Red Tape, video
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