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I just finished re-reading George Orwell’s classic cautionary novel, “1984,” and found a new insight, one that I did not have when I first read it in college, in the 1960s. Orwell’s invented all-powerful dictator was Big Brother. Back then, during the Cold War, the villain clearly was
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I have been very fortunate in the occupation I selected. I knew I would never get rich, but I never imagined it would bring a boy from the tenements of the South Bronx into contact with the rich, powerful, and famous. It’s not what I wanted when I first
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Plagiarism is always wrong, but it is not necessarily deliberate. By definition, plagiarism is using or closely imitating the language of another without authorization, and representing the work as one’s own by not crediting the author. It is a very serious ethics breach in journalism, and in other forms
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Hello, everybody! They say you get only one chance to make a good first impression. But you have unlimited chances to correct a mistake. I’m humbly asking you to correct the mistake you made about me. In 2019, I believe the Philadelphia Flyers management panicked and banned their good-luck
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UPDATE: National Park Service has dropped its ridiculous plan to “rehabilitate” Welcome Park. —- Well, I thought maybe the Woke fever was breaking, but it seems I was wrong. That’s the feeling I got when reading that the National Park Service is floating an insulting proposal to “rehabilitate” the
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By Johnathan Zimmerman Earlier this month, I read the single sharpest criticism of the American university I’ve encountered in many years. And it wasn’t even about the American university. It’s an essay that appeared in the Economist by former The New York Times opinion editor James Bennet,
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Stereotypes are usually wrong, including this one, but what the hell is going on with American young people? Does this seem like I am standing on the lawn and yelling at the clouds? I’ll ask you again later, but if so, I’ve earned it, as opposed to the
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Here’s what I am not thankful about: The generational change in this country that may have catastrophic results, at least for traditional, moderate Americans such as myself. A few days ago, a poll reported that 30% of Americans, 18-34, get their news from Tik Tok. “News” and “Tik Tok”
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Wow, Thanksgiving crept up on me. So many other things are going on I nearly missed the annual column to celebrate Turkey Day. (Not much to celebrate if you are a turkey, the noble bird Ben Franklin wanted to be our national emblem, rather than the scavenging, thieving bald eagle.
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The Woke just won’t quit, you’ve got to hand them that much. We’ve learned the grammar is racist, and math is racist, now it’s birds. Yes, birds. Or their names, anyway. That’s the latest front in the culture wars. The American Ornithological Society, claiming it
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Happy Columbus Day. Yes, I said it.. Men of controversy: Christopher Columbus (left); Frank Rizzo Mayor Jim Kenney acted outside his authority by killing Columbus Day and declaring it Indigenous People’s Day. Contracts with city unions make Columbus Day a paid holiday, so it is “official,” while Indigenous People’
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To celebrate his 55th — the Double Nickel — Henri David, Philadelphia’s Mister Halloween — is going upscale and moving his Oct. 31 ball into the — flourish of trumpets — Kimmel Center, Broad and Spruce. Mister Halloween, Henri David. (Photo: Mike Lynch) And since it is, as he says, on a “school night,