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Op-Eds
Cal Thomas: Ignorance and apathy
What accounts for this vast disparity between perception and reality? It can only be the news and entertainment media and what they choose to highlight, as well as the bias they bring to subjects and issues they seek to promote, denigrate, or ignore.
Froma Harrop: Dreaming of better streaming
It’s not enough for streaming services to collect X dollars a month from subscribers. They have to deliver something in return.
Austin Bay: A soldier dies in the Biden Border War and China’s Strategic Drug War
Bishop Evans died as a soldier fighting in two wars threatening America.
Joseph Carter: Sharing my perspective on homelessness
Navigating through the obstacles of homelessness with several other strikes against me has often felt impossible. At one point I told my closest friend that I just wanted to go back to prison. But I couldn’t figure out how to do that without hurting someone in some way. And I didn’t want that. But I felt desperate. And that can get scary.
Froma Harrop: DeSantis, don’t waste your charm on us
When Disney objected to his “Don’t say gay” bill, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis punished the company in a flamboyantly stupid way — by shooting his own taxpayers in the foot. He stripped Disney World of its self-governing status. Not only had that been what brought the massive development to Orlando in the first place, but the deal also had Disney picking up lots of the bills normally covered by local taxes — to the tune of $163 million a year.
Rich Lowry: In defense of Vikings
What popular depictions of the Vikings tend to leave out … is how these Northmen or Norsemen built as well as destroyed, governed as well as marauded. They had a large hand in setting the contours of medieval Europe and creating a cultural inheritance that still shapes the West today.
Leonard Pitts Jr.: A bad Monday for freedom
This week’s headlines point, in disparate ways, to the same threat. Meaning a corrosion, not simply of the people’s right to know, but of their very ability to know. In that sense, it doesn’t matter whether you and I are in step on which story left us most dyspeptic.
Cal Thomas: What would Walt think?
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill, passed by the Republican-majority legislature, that revokes a special tax exemption and other privileges for Walt Disney World in Orlando.
A teacher fired years ago for being gay watches it all happen again
Culture warriors — from social media accounts like Libs of Tik Tok to legislation like the Florida bill — are getting teachers disciplined and even fired for speaking about the undeniable configuration, nature and geometry of human relationships.