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Louie Gohmert, Republican member of Congress from Texas, announced last week that he was giving up his seat to run for attorney general in Texas.At the very least, this should be entertaining.Gohmert is widely considered the dumbest member of Congress. ....
Oct. 20 marks the 70th anniversary of one of the ugliest chapters in the desegregation of college football.In many ways football was ahead of other team sports in North America in racial integration. At the professional level, Charles W. Follis became. ....
I write this as the former longtime chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, as a person with two adopted children and three adopted grandchildren, and as someone who has worked for almost 50 years, along with many. ....
Column: Meaning and knowledge: Why stories beat facts Modified: 4/17/2021 10:10:02 PM What are called “conspiracy theories” are not theories at all but stories about deception in high places. And because they are stories they cannot be refuted by facts. The story that the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald Trump remains compelling to many Americans in the face of myriad facts and arguments arrayed against it. Many kinds of popular stories, it turns out, are immune from refutation by argument. To see why, we need to understand how stories differ from arguments. Stories are devices to make sense of events: they aim at meaning. Arguments are devices to discover the truth: they aim at knowledge. ....
Column: Dartmouth puts its music library on the chopping block Modified: 2/23/2021 10:20:12 PM A few days after it announced a $75 million renovation for the Hopkins Center for the Arts, to be carried out by the Norwegian design firm Snøhetta, Dartmouth College announced it would be permanently closing the Paddock Music Library and the Kresge Physical Sciences Library. The decision renders Dartmouth the only Ivy League school without a music library. The college’s clinical, corporate news release included the following line: “High-use material from the Kresge and Paddock collections will be relocated to Baker-Berry over the coming months with the remainder of the collections to be housed in the library’s offsite shelving facility and available by request.” ....