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The New Parasitic Leviathan

September 28, 2022
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Commentary In March 2020, Britain embarked on a novel and experimental policy in order to respond to a pandemic respiratory virus. This was the policy that was dubbed lockdown, a collection of measures consisting of unprecedented interventions to radically reduce the number of daily contacts that people had. It had no basis in numerous previous…

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What Can the Stanford Prison Experiment Tell Us About Life in the Pandemic Era?

March 11, 2022
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Commentary Late in the summer of 1971, a young man was taken from his home in Palo Alto, California. Then another. And another. Nine in all, they were each spirited away. Eventually brought to a place with no windows and no clocks, they were stripped and they were chained. They were costumed in dress-like gowns….

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Pennsylvania Republicans Try to Block School Mask Order

September 14, 2021
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The debate over requiring Pennsylvania school children to wear masks in schools and childcare centers continued Tuesday in Harrisburg with a letter from the House Health Committee, challenging Acting Health Secretary Alison Beam’s authority to order masks in schools. In late August, Democrat Governor Tom Wolf asked the General Assembly to return to Harrisburg and…

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Critical Theory vs Authority: Addressing Polarization in a Time of Crisis

April 23, 2021
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Commentary ROME— Did a relatively unknown, Hungarian-born political philosopher discover the answer to countering dangerous, reactionary polarizations that have emerged in Western culture in recent years? Understanding the foundation behind the current extreme movements in political activism to dismantle traditional forms of governance, cancel culture and critical theory may answer the causation behind the rhetoric,…

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Critical Theory Versus Authority: Addressing Polarization in a Time of Crisis

April 23, 2021
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Commentary ROME—Did a relatively unknown, Hungarian-born political philosopher discover the answer to countering dangerous, reactionary polarizations that have emerged in Western culture in recent years? Understanding the foundation behind the current extreme movements in political activism to dismantle traditional forms of governance, cancel culture and critical theory may answer the causation behind the rhetoric, argued…

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