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Is America as Soul-Sick as it Looks? November 05, 2024

I study Swedish five hours a day. A social program for foreigners with higher education. Funded by the city. My classmates are Iranians, Afghans, Indians, Africans, and Eastern Europeans—lawyers, economists, epidemiologists. Everyone is nice, everyon...

Why People in Sweden Do Nature Right March 13, 2024

Back in the 1980s, my left-leaning dad used to joke at the dinner table that if a certain right-leaning President were re-elected, we would be moving to Sweden. In his mind, the country of his forebears was an egalitarian society of hale and hearty o...