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  • Fabricating Hate Crimes Is a Byproduct of Victimhood Ideology on College Campuses

    Fabricating Hate Crimes Is a Byproduct of Victimhood Ideology on College Campuses0

    Anna Ayers, a student government leader at Ohio University, reported finding threatening messages in the drawer of her desk a few weeks ago. Ayers, an LGBT student, said the three notes were “hateful, harassing,” according to The Post Athens, a student-run news outlet, and made specific attacks on her sexual identity. “Senate will never be the same

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  • Eyes Wide Open: Seeing Liberty

    Eyes Wide Open: Seeing Liberty0

    In Lost In The Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, Walker Percy raises a number of philosophical questions regarding the self and why we know so little about ourselves. He also invites readers to participate in a number of “Thought Experiments.” In a chapter on “Why the Self is the only Object in the Cosmos which Gets Bored,”

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  • Extreme Marie Kondo: Could You Give Up all Your Worldly Goods?

    Extreme Marie Kondo: Could You Give Up all Your Worldly Goods?0

    Marie Kondo’s Netflix show “Tidying Up” is a smash hit. Thrift stores all over America have seen a spike in donations – to the extent that some have had to impose limits on how much people can donate. The premise of the show is simple: in each episode, a different family goes through all their

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  • Extra! Extra! Boy Walks to School!

    Extra! Extra! Boy Walks to School!0

    A Michigan story getting a lot of attention for reasons you can probably figure out on your own is headlined: “10-year-old Grosse Pointe Park boy walked to school every day for 4 years. He plans to keep the streak going.” Yup. Real headline, real kid, real indication of all sorts of rather depressing things about

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  • Extinction by Our Own Hand

    Extinction by Our Own Hand0

    A few billion years from now, the Sun will continue in its life cycle, become an expanding red giant, and most likely envelop the Earth. This spectacular solar smack-down should be no problem for humanity, however. We’ll have already met our demise, most likely via omnicide. Sound grim? Check out Mary Shelley’s The Last Man, a

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  • Extended Childhood: The New American Way

    Extended Childhood: The New American Way0

    Resilience. It’s one of the latest buzzwords in society, especially when it comes to raising children, explains Richard Godwin in The Guardian. But teaching resilience is a bit challenging these days, Godwin implies, especially when kids are raised in the traditional education system which “encourages children to see their worth in terms of grades achieved,

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