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19 June 2019

Desperate measures

Who keeps the metric system down? If he has his way, James Panero, executive editor of US conservative literary magazine The New Criterion. He recently joined regular Fox News host Tucker Carlson in a segment that asked “?”.

“Almost every nation on Earth has fallen under the yoke of tyranny” of this “weird, utopian, inelegant, creepy system”, Carlson informed viewers. This had come at an untold price to human progress, said Panero. “It was customary measures that measured out the Industrial Revolution and customary measures that took us to the moon.”…

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