Dilettantes At War From the safety and comfort of a tent on a college quad, it’s easy to argue ad nauseam about the horrors of war and why they shouldn’t happen. And it’s similarly easy to do the same from the oval office and halls of Congress. Brett Stephens argues that it’s the reason America has  in the […]
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When Did “Meaning” Become Assignable? At Volokh Conspiracy, Orin Kerr raises an interesting point about what he calls “meaning assignment.” For years, I’ve challenged the morphing of definitions, from rape to sex, from what were once clearly defined words into vagaries that enable everyone to claim their own idiosyncratic definition. It makes communication rather difficult when we use the same […]
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Memorial Day 2024 My father taught me that there was no glory in dying in battle. He served in the European Theater in World War II in the 86th Infantry, the Blackhawk Division. He mostly spoke of how cold it was, but he never forgot the men with whom he served who never made it home. My father […]
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To Believe To Belong This wasn’t the same as other protests, as it pitted one group of students against another rather than the government. It was students who embraced the lie that Israel was the oppressor and the Palestinians were the oppressed. It was students who believed the deluge of propaganda pictures and videos that rarely showed what they […]
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