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A letter in last week’s Mailbag entitled, “Hold Webster Schools Accountable For Inequity” was written under the pseudonym of “Winston Smith,” a fictional character from George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four.” The letter should not have been published and Times editors regret having missed th…
So-called “conservatives” have been invoking Orwell of late. Missouri Senator Josh Hawley recently lamented that it was “Orwellian” to have his book deal scrapped after his baseless objection to the presidential electoral vote count and his fist-in-the-air salute to the Capitol insurrectionists.
I have 300 words to clean up the harmful and uninformed anti-trans beliefs that were in last week’s Mailbag. I don’t need them all — here is what we need to know …
Jan. 6, 2021, was an attack on our country, incited by a president and fueled by Republicans who refused to honor the will of the people.
