Yesterday’s edition of the Washington Post carried an article by George Will. He pointed out that loss of manufacturing jobs was the tip of an iceberg – it is the continued loss of retailing jobs that is an even greater worry. There isn’t a lot you can do about manufacturing, if only because what is …
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Women’s reproductive rights and control over their own bodies and their own lives are about to be brutally assaulted in the United States. I therefore, on this blog, wish to make the following statement, which is based upon the humanist message of care, compassion, support, love, consideration for others, and wish for all human beings …
Type the question “Did the Holocaust really happen?” into Google and the first answer you get (the one you take to be the most authoritative) is headlined: “Top ten reasons why the Holocaust didn’t happen.” The origin is so-called Stormfront Radio, featuring Don Black, Paul Fromm and David Duke. The second entry refers to “the …
His education was sketchy, his knowledge of the world even more so. He was a bully from his earliest years, vain and consumed with the urge to win. He started life as a socialist but later became an ardent nationalist, founding the fascist movement. On becoming ruler he removed political opposition, establishing an elaborate and …
“A minefield of drunken gropings and sexual assaults.” That’s the picture painted of American universities, and it’s partly true, says Amanda Foreman. But there’s something even more striking about US campus life: it’s “jaw-droppingly luxurious”. To take two examples: the University of Missouri boasts an indoor beach club, modelled on one in the Playboy mansion, …
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