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Dear Conservatives: the Universities Didn’t Do It, Neither Did Hollywood

What’s firstly puzzling about the right’s Ivy League and Ivy League-adjacent hatred, and the belief that so much of what ails us is an effect of what “they’re teaching” on campus, is that so many of their own attended Ivy League schools themselves. Tom Cotton attended Harvard and Harvard Law, Ted Cruz went to […]

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Beware the Pundits Who Think They Speak For Us

“We are living in a moment of existential dread and alienation caused by the savagery of social media, the ugliness of our politics, the AI takeover, our melting planet, a winner-take-all economy…” Those are the words of Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank. He doesn’t lack for certitude. Most of us can’t develop a read of the

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Conservatives Adopt Left-Wing Tactics To Allegedly Fix Universities

“Without broader hiring reforms, proto right-wing employees will continue to control big business. Several states are trying to dictate what conservative executives should and shouldn’t instruct employees about, but these efforts similarly don’t reach the core of big business’s sickness – the commercial monopoly of right-wing thought that guarantees its continued malignancy.” It’s bothersome,

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Talk of a Biden ‘Cover-Up’ Is Performative Nonsense From Both Sides

Quick, how many right-wing or populist MAGA types got their news from CNN during the Biden administration? Tick tock, tick tock? Quick, how many left-wing or Biden types got their news from Fox News during the Biden administration? Tick tock, tick tock. Both questions rate asking as self-regarding left wingers self-flagellate about how they

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It ‘Took a World’ to Create Royal Caribbean’s ‘Utopia of the Seas’

Coco Cay, Bahamas – Royal Caribbean’s Utopia of the Seas cruise ship had its maiden voyage just last month. Construction of what exceeds 1,100 feet in length took place in Saint-Nazare, France, but it’s more realistic to say that this monument to the vastness of the human imagination was produced around the world. And

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