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Ind vs Aus: Australia announce playing 11 for the fourth Test, make two changes even as Travis Head is fit

Australia has announced their team for the fourth Test at Melbourne on December 26. Travis Head is confirmed to play after passing fitness tests. Teenager Sam Konstas will make his debut, replacing Nathan McSweeney. Scott Boland will replace the injured Josh Hazlewood. The team includes experienced players like Steve Smith, Pat Cummins, and Mitchell Starc.

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Raise a Glass With William Hazlitt!

Hazlitt got gloomily drunk for a fortnight after the battle of Waterloo, accurately anticipating that decades of reaction lay ahead, now that Boney had been definitely put away, with the Holy Alliance in the saddle and the French contagion safely bottled up. Smart fellow, that Hazlitt. He should have stayed drunk for a month. More

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Raise a Glass to William Hazlitt!

Hazlitt got gloomily drunk for a fortnight after the battle of Waterloo, accurately anticipating that decades of reaction lay ahead, now that Boney had been definitely put away, with the Holy Alliance in the saddle and the French contagion safely bottled up. Smart fellow, that Hazlitt. He should have stayed drunk for a month. More

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A Note on Trade and Inequality

We saw millions of workers displaced in manufacturing, as our trade deficit ballooned from 1997 to 2007. Communities across the industrial heartland were devastated as the factories that supported them downsized or shut altogether. We can have lengthy debates about the motives of working-class people who switched from Democrats to Trump voters, but the fact that Democratic presidents pushed trade policies that destroyed millions of good paying jobs for non-college educated workers is not really in dispute. Читать дальше...

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The Massacre of the Innocents Goes On  

The biblical narrative of Herod’s decision to butcher some 3,000 innocent children inspired Rennaissance and Baroque artists to produce hundreds of dramatic and powerful harrowing canvases of all sizes. Under the title The Massacre of the Innocents, this genocide, ordered and overseen by Herod, has been memorialized in art by Peter Paul Rubens, Guido Reni, More

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Perp Walk 101: Don’t Make the Guy Look Amazing

It really shouldn't come as a surprise that the ruling class failed in their attempt to make CEO Shooter Luigi Mangione look terrifying in that failed Perp Walk. I'm sure you all saw it, the man was thronged with everything and everyone that could be utilized to make him look wildly dangerous, at least in the eyes of those who truly do not understand the pulsing discontent everyday Americans have. I don't think a moment like this could have happened even 10 years ago. More

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