One of my homework assignments was to write an op-ed for The New York Times. For a variety of reasons, the following would never appear in the paper of record’s august pages, not even their Week in Review section. But I enjoyed the dreamy exercise while it lasted… *** George Orwell famously quipped that the language of politics is often deployed to “make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.” The truism is still very much on display in an age when strictures ensuring that employees work longer and harder hours for less pay and benefits are dubbed “Right to Work” laws, or when “small-government conservatives” or “libertarians” continue to support platforms that neither deliver on a smaller government nor imbue the commonwealth with liberty,…
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