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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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the “Make America Healthy Again” moment is in some ways just another step in the long retreat of the civic trust and communitarian spirit that have enabled America’s disease-fighting efforts. If this retreat continues, the public-health era—the century-long period of unprecedented epidemiological safety that has been the foundation for so many other breakthroughs—will come to an end. And that end will have dire consequences for this republic and its future.
~ Vann Newkirk via The Atlantic
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Harvard Kennedy School
Why are there so many rich students at elite universities?
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Bowdoin College
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Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.
~ H. L. Mencken
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Interesting Read
via The New York Times:
Why U.S. Test Scores Are in a ‘Generation-Long Decline’
by Claire Cain Miller, Francesca Paris and Sarah Mervosh
published on May 13, 2026
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Thomas College
Interesting Read
via The Atlantic:
How AI Killed a 133-Year-Old Princeton Tradition
by Rose Horowitch
published on May 12, 2025
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A system can tell you where a man is. It cannot tell you what his death will mean for a nation. Such systems are trained on behavior, not on meaning — they can track what an adversary does but not what he fears, honors, remembers or would die for.
~ Yonatan Touval via The New York Times
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The modern mass party reached its apogee in the middle of the 20th century. Yet it was most memorably portrayed in the interwar period, the era of continental fascism, when hundreds of thousands of Europeans became far-right partisans and paramilitary violence spilled into the continent’s streets.
~ Anton Jäger via The New York Times
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