Victor Davis Hanson on Corona, California, and the Classical World

  From my daily Newsletter  – Think Things Through Victor David Hanson. I just found out about him recently. He is quite a though provoker. Here is an excerpt from his recent writing: From National Review Chemotherapy It’s a race to identify the origins, nature, and danger of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the best way…

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Hard Living In The Big Easy: Housing Costs Push Musicians Out Of New Orleans

“Jazz vocalist John Boutté feels he can no longer afford to live in his hometown of New Orleans. He’s not alone. Rising housing costs are pushing many musicians and service workers — the backbone of New Orleans’ tourism economy — further and further outside the city limits. This suburbanization of the working class poses more…

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“Fatherhood is fantastic, fantastic. Whatever is second best is a distant second.”

“The advice I would give is ‘you can’t get it back.’ The day you didn’t go to the game, you can’t get that back. You didn’t go. The hotel room that goes unsold will never be sold. The day you didn’t spend, you didn’t spend. That is a big regret of mine; that I didn’t…

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Equality? Not with sentencing to prisons

  If you’re a convicted criminal, the best thing you can have going for you might be your gender. A new study by Sonja Starr, an assistant law professor at the University of Michigan, found that men are given much higher sentences than women convicted of the same crimes in federal court. The study found…

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