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For the left, children are either obstacles or tools

In the aftermath of a leaked Supreme Court draft majority decision prospectively overruling Roe v. Wade, the Left in the United States has gone into full-fledged panic mode. That outsized panic has manifested as a variety of unconvincing or blatantly immoral arguments: the argument that ...

Fauci, MacArthur, expertise and law

Anthony Fauci has been the public face of public health throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Several recent pronouncements suggest that he has something in common with Gen. Douglas MacArthur — and this commonality is not a good thing. Fauci, it seems, shares MacArthur’s belief that technical ...

Colleges confronting their racial pasts

Redressing the wrongs of the past … … Especially when the past was misleading. On April 26, Anemona Hartocollis wrote for The New York Times: “While New England’s image has been linked in popular culture to abolitionism, the report said, wealthy plantation owners and Harvard were ...

The real costs of inflation

A while back, I shared a guessing game I play at the grocery. It goes like this. As I approach the register, I announce, “Today, I’m going to guess what my groceries total,” and then offer an amount. The cashier usually counters, and we see who’s closest. It’s become popular, and ...

Waging ‘war by proxy’

The phrase “war by proxy” is in vogue. It’s not a new term, but you see and hear it all the time now. That’s what the United States and its NATO allies are doing in Ukraine, getting Ukrainian forces to fight the Russians on their behalf. Support for this “proxy war” is ...

The fence: Which side are you on?

Now comes Justice Samuel Alito, the Princeton man and Eastern elitist who never met a woman he liked, save colleague Justice Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court. He's a "justice" sitting in judgment on us. Known for his sharp and sour edge, Alito authored a 98-page "draft" opinion that ...