By all means, as antisemitism spreads on campuses, please cast aspersions on “elite” (meaning expensive) higher education (higher than what?).
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********* NYTimes: Why Are We Gambling With America’s Future?
Why Are We Gambling With America’s Future? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/opinion/us-federal-debt.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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***** NYTimes.com: Why Losing Political Power Now Feels Like ‘Losing Your Country’
Why Losing Political Power Now Feels Like ‘Losing Your Country’
It is difficult, if not impossible, to attempt to counter polarization at a time when partisan sectarianism is intense and pervasive.
**** Boeing and the Dark Age of American Manufacturing
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*** NYTimes.com: Rural Voters Are More Progressive Than the Democratic Party Thinks rj
Conversations and insights about the moment.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/16/opinion/thepoint?smid=em-share
********* Freedom for the Wolves
Neoliberal orthodoxy holds that economic freedom is the basis of every other kind. That orthodoxy, a Nobel economist says, is not only false; it is devouring itself.
As Isaiah Berlin would have it: Freedom for the wolves; death for the sheep.
***** NYTimes: The Line Between Good and Evil Cuts Through Evangelical America
The Line Between Good and Evil Cuts Through Evangelical America https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/21/opinion/christianity-fundamentalist-evangelical-pentacostal.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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[*** The Washington Post] One poll question summarizes eight years of Donald Trump
Asked who they trust for information about Ukraine, Republicans were most likely to point to the former president.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/15/poll-ukraine-news-trump-honesty/
*** NYTimes.com: How New Wars Have Brought Back Old American Divisions
How New Wars Have Brought Back Old American Divisions
Both parties experience echoes of decades past.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/opinion/republicans-democrats-ukraine-israel.html?smid=em-share
*** We’ve Been Thinking About America’s Trust Collapse All Wrong
Trust isn’t something that emerges naturally from a well-functioning society; people have to build it through hard work.