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I’ve been pretty cheerful lately about certain trends in the U.S.  There seems to be a widespread rejection by everyday people of the progressive narrative that holds the U.S. to...

One of the greatest (to my mind, at least) of Judaism’s traditions is its reverence for learning, intellectual endeavor and debate.  So I was astonished to read this piece by...

 Last time, in discussing the subculture of the “woke,” I mentioned that the very concept of wokeness and the woke themselves remind us greatly of times supposedly gone by, of...

 This continues my discussion of Anne Applebaum’s piece on “The New Puritans,” i.e., the woke. Applebaum identifies four things that occur when a person is targeted by cancel culture.  First,...

For its power, woke culture utilizes mob rule – the public defenestration of anyone for the slightest of misjudgments, real or fictional.  Cancellation can mean anything from public humiliation to...

Governmental overreach made (and makes) combatting COVID-19 more difficult.  Here are three examples. First up, a judge in family court in Cook County, Illinois issued an order stating that a...