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My colleague, the philosopher Susanna Siegel, asks: Does relying on science science strengthen authoritarianism or weaken it? t.co/4gTD8Rlci8
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Hard to know now which policies against COVID work best, but 1 index is deaths/capita/day, aligned w outbreak. OWID graph shows US doing poorly; Sweden far worse than Norway (& is 1 of the worst rich countries). t.co/HdZ7t5NqHa
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George Will on the ascendance of the counter-Enlightenment, illiberal, anti-libertarian right: “When American conservatism becomes un-American” t.co/ry4P4CXu85
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Baby Name Voyager: Babies named 'Karen' per million babies t.co/ijDBurPB6n
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Girls' names churn with the times, and "Karen" is a prototypical Boomer name, with a sharp peak in the 1950s: t.co/ijDBurPB6n t.co/FexCST2a7k
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