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On fatherhood

Every day, rain or shine or Shinola, I take our dog, Bella, out for a walk. It’s good for both of us, and as her doggy daddy, it’s my responsibility to ensure that she gets her minimum daily requirement of free-range fun. During our walks Bella chases rabbits that she never catches and ...

Get ready to say goodbye to social media

Covid should have killed off digital freedom. Governments around the world used an overwhelmingly survivable virus to usher in a digital surveillance framework under the pretext of vaccination verification. Now, "child safety" is positioned to finish the job. Over the past few days, several ...

Let young workers out of social security

What cruel irony that we learned last week that Social Security is going broke even sooner than we thought. The Social Security trust fund will be exhausted in 2032, according to the latest Trustees Report. How odd that it is even referred to as a "trust fund," because there is no trust, and ...

University professors against academic freedom

Does academic freedom have a greater enemy than the American Association of University Professors? With millions of dollars in backing from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the AAUP recently set up a Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom (CDAF) that's about as accurately named as the ...

Politician names on public works is free advertising

When workers scraped Donald Trump's name off the Donald Trump and John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center, they should have kept going. They should have taken Kennedy's name off as well and restored the building to its original, simple title, the National Culture Center. After President ...

What is OCD?

When someone says that another person, or themselves, is/or has OCD, what does that mean? The letters stand for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. What is an obsession? What is a compulsion? And what is a disorder? A basic way to define obsession is a strong impulse or thought that you do not ...