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Weekend Beacon 6/8/2025
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According to a recent study, young people are less able to read books from
cover to cover than ever before. Rest assured, the Weekend Beacon stands
athwart history yelling Stop, please sign your children up for this newsletter.
Speaking of standing athwart history, James Piereson reviews the highly
anticipated biography Buckley: The Life and Revolution that Changed America by
Sam Tanenhaus. […]
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The golden age of Twitter is long gone
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In the aftermath of the Liverpool parade crash, comedian Andrew Lawrence
tweeted words to the effect that, were he to find himself in Liverpool, he too
would be willing to drive through crowds of people to get out of there. The
online outrage was instant and loud. Yet, now a week and a bit on, […]
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A New Bio China Syndrome: Couple Charged for Crop-Killing Fungus
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US authorities foil a chilling and dastardly plot in America’s heartland. The
US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan put out a bit of a
cryptic press release on June 3. The headline read: “Chinese Nationals Charged
with Conspiracy and Smuggling a Dangerous Biological Pathogen into the U.S. for
their Work at a […]
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From the Back Forty: Where Are the Adults?
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From government officials – past and present alike – to international
activists, it seems few people are acting their age. A big bulging bill – some
say it’s beautiful, but not everyone thinks so – kicked off a contentious
weekend for President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. The former head slicer and
dicer of DOGE […]
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Buckley’s Life on the Firing Line
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When William F. Buckley Jr. died in 2008, the United States lost its most
articulate champion of conservative ideas. Over the course of a 60-year career
in the public eye, Buckley did just about everything: published books and
articles, lectured, wrote a newspaper column, edited a national magazine,
advised politicians, and even ran for office. […]
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