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Humility Is Civilization’s Price of Admission
If I don’t mow the forest line around my meadow, tree saplings appear within weeks. If we don’t use our muscles, they begin to atrophy. If we don’t clean our kitchen after each meal, the space to make another nourishing meal disappears. All around us, order requires maintenance. Our lives are a struggle against entropy. Earlier this year, my wife lost the rubber sealing ring for her indispensable Oster Versa blender.
The Ethic of Booker T.
Commentary Labor Day has just passed, which calls for a remembrance of a great apostle of dignified work. I mean Booker T. Washington, a man born into slavery and who became by 1900 perhaps the most famous American in the world. His life story is told in “Up from Slavery,” which is still an assignment in U.S. history and literature courses in high school, as it should be. His message has never been more timely. For all his fame and travels, Washington devoted most of his life to education.
Fauci Didn’t Create Faucism. He Exposed It
In a 2021 AIER essay, “Liberating Yourself from Faucism,” I wrote: “The issue isn’t Anthony Fauci’s failings. The problem is Faucism, the fantastical belief that wise and beneficent experts should rule.” Five years later, many remain committed Faucists — not just in support of Dr. Fauci, but in support of the failed idea that Americans should conform to expert rule.
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