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No-Schooling Through The Education Revolution
An interview with no-schooler Jireh Hodges and her perspective on alternative educational paths
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How Major Media Outlets Suppressed My COVID Journalism
Notes from unprecedented suppression on the inside.
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Covid Reforms: Stay On Target
When making policy in the wake of this pandemic, we need to be laser focused on the lessons we've learned these last three years
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The Case Against Masks In Schools
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A Long One About The Florida Data Scandal
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The Case Of The Abandoned Metrics
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The Fallacy of Red Covid
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Essential Terms of the Authority Crisis
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Fact Checking the CDC with Kelley Krohnert
As we increasingly lose faith in our institutions, other voices are filling the expertise vacuum
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Changing Minds With Rebekah Jones
Sometimes when we are stuck in a belief rut, we need difficult truths to come out of the mouths of our friends
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A New Romanticism
The turn away from nihilism and irony will be fueled by kindness in the face of cynicism
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The Rhyming History of Masks
Masks were seen as a salvation during the 1918 influenza pandemic. What happened next was remembered for one hundred years. We forgot it in 2020, but…
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Against Iconoclasm
The Roald Dahl controversy points to the much deeper corporate cultural problem of treating art as disposable
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Dreams About Rebuilding Trust
Assuming a perfect world and a spherical cow, what would it look like to rebuild trust in an institution like the CDC?
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CDC Failures Will Spawn Institutional Alternatives
When the CDC failed in its mission during the pandemic, the marketplace for trustworthy expertise responded with worthy alternatives.
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Matt Shapiro's Marginally Compelling
Matt Shapiro's Marginally Compelling
An honest attempt to parse data, wrestle with uncertainty, and suss out events in real time. Also cartoons.

Matt Shapiro's Marginally Compelling

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