More housing • Indian Child Welfare Act • liberal WEPs? • conservatives on campus • Hunter Biden • RCV • Point Break • abortion vigilantism • plus John Stoehr's week
The weekend edition of the Editorial Board!
Welcome to the weekend edition of the Editorial Board, where you will find a roundup of everything produced over the last week by our amazing stable of writers.
This week featured me, too. Here’s what you may have missed:
• Monday July 12, 2021
Facts about the covid vaccinations are totally political, because all facts are totally political Read more• Tuesday July 13, 2021
For white evangelical Protestants, the degradation of democracy is not regrettable. It's desirable Read more• Wednesday July 14, 2021
The Democrats are naming the republic's enemies while providing a future road to 'stability and hope' Read more• Thursday July 15, 2021
No, there's nothing 'demagogic and dangerous' about a president taking the side of democracy Read more• Friday July 16, 2021
Things are going to change now that normal people can really feel the government being on their side Read more
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On that note, here’s the weekend edition …
July 16, 2021
Texas creates a market for abortion vigilantism
A new abortion law is the first law in the nation to place the entire mechanism of enforcement in the hands of private citizens, writes Editorial Board member Mia Brett.
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July 15, 2021
In this game, we all lose
My adult-eyes see political commentary on the 30th anniversary of the release of Point Break—specifically the tensions of toeing the line between anti-state and anti-capitalist critiques, and its reasserting of these things, writes Editorial Board member Joshua Adams.
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July 15, 2021
The Democrats say ranked choice voting is fairer. What they don't say is it helps beat Republicans
Ranked choice voting gives the Democratic Party a way to hold its sprawling diverse coalition together, writes Editorial Board member Matt Robison. It provides every segment of the party a chance to have a stake in the ultimate winner.
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July 14, 2021
There are no clear-cut answers to the problem of a president's son making a living from his dad's name
Hunter Biden plans to offer his zombie florals at high prices ($75,000-$500,000) at a New York gallery. Art experts agree these are eye-popping prices for an artist with his meager CV, writes Editorial Board member Lindsay Beyerstein.
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July 13, 2021
There's room for conservative thought in higher education. There's no room for higher education in conservative thought
Democracy relies on debate. This does not presume every debate is worthwhile. Nor does it imply ideological conformity is always bad, writes Editorial Board member Magdi Semrau.
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July 12, 2021
No, white evangelicals are not in rapid decline
The next time you see a story about white evangelicals drifting left, recognize it for what it is: a public-relations ploy put on by the few liberal evangelicals to burnish their image, writes the Editorial Board’s chaplain, Rev. Daniel Schultz.
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July 12, 2021
The law corrects for past discrimination against Native children. But conservatives say it's unconstitutionally based on race.
From 1958 to the early 1970s, as a result of residential schools and the Indian Adoption Project, between 25 and 35 percent of Native children were removed from their families and homes, writes Editorial Board member Mia Brett.
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July 12, 2021
We need more housing. We need more housing. We need more housing. We need more housing
Five hundred thousand Americans are homeless at any point in time, writes Editorial Board member Brandon Bradford. Yet we have billionaires going to space for seconds just for fun.