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July 13, 2021
Fauci’s Truths and Half-Truths About Gain-of-Function Research
As recently as 2018, Fauci celebrated the lifting of the “pause” on such research. With government in “upstream” control of funding, guidance, and publications, he argued, what could go wrong?
David Bromwich
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June 7, 2021
When Sensitivity Becomes Censorship
A restrictionist mentality is taking over certain segments of the left.
David Bromwich
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April 23, 2021
Notes on Cant—and Other Ways of Saying What We Don’t Mean
A close relative of hypocrisy, cant speech conceals the iron fist of conformity inside the velvet glove of cliche.
David Bromwich
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March 11, 2021
Will the Democrats Renew Their Membership in the War Party?
Regardless of which party is in power, US foreign policy since 9/11 has meant a unified government under the masters of war.
David Bromwich
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January 25, 2021
We Balk at ‘Law and Order,’ but Democracy Needs the Rule of Law
The preservation of our liberties has always depended more on habit than on compulsion.
David Bromwich
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