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Heal Thyself October 03, 2024
Recent calls to “Make America Healthy Again” are a welcome message at a time of mass food production, rising heart disease and various forms of cancer, and generally sedentary lives. A recent episode of Tucker Carlson’s podcast focused on the current...
Depoliticizing the University October 02, 2024
Reviewing David Rabban’s recent book last week, John McGinnis called attention to the distinction between academic freedom and the freedom of speech. The latter concept is often seen as the key to depoliticizing universities, purging them from ideolo...
Coldplay’s Self-Help Pop October 02, 2024
On a recent afternoon in Malibu, Chris Martin, the front man of Coldplay, was enjoying a brief pause between tour dates. “We have breaks, but only in the way that Serena Williams has a banana between sets,” he said, pulling his bare feet up under him...
Contradictions of the New Elite October 02, 2024
Starting in the interwar period (between World Wars I and II) and rapidly accelerating in the 1970s, there were shifts to the global economy that radically increased the influence of the “symbolic industries” — science and technology, education, medi...
