Passover Under Lockdown: Israeli Jews Revise the Rituals
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“Why is this night different from all other nights? Israelis celebrate a festival of freedom under isolation and shelter-in-place orders.” - NY Times
Not a Statistic to Me
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Dan Wallace’s father passed away from COVID-19: “I’m so grateful to be Beecher Wallace’s son. And I look forward to seeing my earthly father once again.”
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Adrian Vermeule’s Moral Madness
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“Regardless of his theocratic aspirations, Vermeule’s constitutional philosophy itself is nonsensical, given that it openly advocates the dissolution of the very constraints that characterize a constitutional order.
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When will COVID-19 peak? A state-by-state analysis (according to one model)
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“Peek demand for hospital resources due to COVID-19 is expected by mid-April in the U.S., according to an analysis from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle.” -
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Can We Measure the Value of Saving Human Lives in Dollars? Somber Calculations in a Time of Plague
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“These paradoxes have a root cause. They all depend on a certain kind of economic model of practical rationality. They assume that the value of a human action can be identified with the expected value of the consequences of that action.
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Gender Transition Surgeries in a Global Crisis
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On “the test of the real world”: “Contemporary gender ideology not only fails this test by failing to deliver the green grass on the other side of mutilating surgery, but in a way made even more obvious in this time of crisis.” - Breakpoint
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"A call to honesty in pandemic modeling"
A sobering article from a mathematician that drives home the grim reality of what we are likely really facing with this pandemic.
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Rejecting Vermeule’s Right-Wing Dworkinian Vision
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“…there is nothing in Professor Vermeule’s essay to suggest that it is the only reasonable approach to securing the common good. More importantly, there are sound reasons to believe that the United States, through its written Constitution, chose a different—also reasonable—approach” - Law & Liberty
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“Vermeule’s argument is primarily a question about what conservative political philosophy should look like”
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“[Vermeule argues that] the Constitution’s most abstract language should be interpreted as affording the government almost entirely unconstrained power over its citizens, a sort of blank check for the exercise of political authority as the sovereign sees fit. But can that practice of interpretation be justified on theological grounds?” - John Ehrett
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Record low number of Americans hold biblical worldview, survey says
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“Born again Christians … were three times more likely than average to have a biblical worldview (19%). However, the fact that not quite one out of five born again adults holds a biblical worldview highlights the extensive decline of core Christian principles in America over the last several decades” - CPost
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