What Unifies Americans, and What Doesn’t

The first and obvious is that an attack by an exterior group to one’s own naturally pulls the assaulted group together, despite any internal differences that may exist.
A more nuanced, though also important answer is that this is not the same country it was 20 years ago. We didn’t have a contingent of tens of millions of ignorant people who, by virtue of what they can find on the Internet over a period of a few hours, believe they are overnight experts in a certain subject matter. These are disciplines in which the true scholars have spent their entire adult lives studying, posing hypotheses, conducting rigorous experiments, drawing conclusions, writing comprehensive papers, getting them peer-reviewed, and publishing their ultimate findings.
We live among countless fools, where that was not the case in 2001.

Here’s good new at the left.
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I have bad news for Joe Biden, and for all Americans wishing to put the pandemic behind us: anti-vaxxers don’t function on empirical evidence.
I thought the meme here was clever.
What a fabulous thought here.
Here are some COVID-19 numbers, daily new cases per 100,000 people, as of yesterday, in the U.S. and three others countries I chose at random:
Reuters reports: In a letter posted on Harvard’s website, President Lawrence Bacow said the school’s endowment had
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