America was founded on a set of beliefs and convictions—what Thomas Jefferson described as self-evident truths that were proclaimed in the 1776 Declaration of Independence and then protected by the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.
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Third spaces offer something many of us are now missing: identity flexibility. They are places where we are not reduced to our roles. We are simply human among other humans. Without that middle space, identity collapses inward.
I doubt if Democrats have the self-awareness to realize that the young men about whom they evince concern have been alienated by the identity politics with which liberals have beaten them senseless for decades. Democrats need to put down this club.
Every important discovery starts with uncertainty. Uncertainty is not always comfortable, but it is often where truth begins. Maybe the best gift we can give future generations is not a set of answers, but the freedom and courage to keep asking questions.
Illness is made to be seen. Death, made for ritualised appearance. By looking for them, we do not destroy them. Let us train our eyes on illness. Determine that when it comes it is a fall.
We don’t get to choose all of the shadows that enter our lives. We can spend the rest of our lives staring at the darkness, or we can use it to give the picture depth. That feels like awakening to me.
Perhaps there are other explanations. But from those I’ve listed, I hope the thing is a hoax. Because any of the other explanations reveal what kind of country we have become: censored and self-centered. And these poor bridesmaids are left to themselves.
In the normal, sane world of my childhood, this wouldn’t have been extraordinary. But this was November, 2022, and the world was just beginning to recover from the insanity of the Covid-19 response.
While each of us are free to live by our own privately held theories regarding the actions taken by, or in the name of, Collective X or Collective Y, it is never right for the government to do so.
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If there is a lesson from the current hantavirus hype, it is not simply that the media exaggerates risk. It is that societies must relearn proportional thinking. Public health should inform, not terrify. Journalists should contextualize, not sensationalize.
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We have bought the lie that anything that makes our lives easier is good, and that includes letting others do our thinking for us. We have admitted this Trojan horse through the gates, not recognizing the evil enwrapped within its glittering package.
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