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  • Does Putin Want to Make Moscow ‘the Third Rome’?

    Does Putin Want to Make Moscow ‘the Third Rome’?0

    Russian athletes were conspicuous in their neutral colours during this year’s Winter Olympics and Paralympics due to a ban based on doping allegations. In Vancouver in 2010 and in Sochi in 2014, however, Russia’s Olympic hockey jerseys prominently featured a two-headed eagle exactly where Canada’s jerseys highlighted the maple leaf. This two-headed eagle is not

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  • Does Political Correctness Erase Cultural Substance?

    Does Political Correctness Erase Cultural Substance?0

    • July 24, 2018

    Does it ever seem to you that a politically correct student can do no wrong? That question crossed my mind when I read about a recent incident at the University of Manchester. According to The Guardian, the University of Manchester recently refurbished its students’ union. Part of the décor involved a mural of the poem

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  • Does Party Affiliation Influence Marital Bliss?

    Does Party Affiliation Influence Marital Bliss?0

    • August 17, 2015

    Does your party affiliation influence your marital bliss? Today’s New York Times suggests that it may.   Reporting on a recent study by W. Bradford Wilcox, the NYT reports: “Among married people between the ages of 20 and 60, 67 percent of Republicans report being ‘very happy’ with their marriages. Among Democrats, the share was

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  • Does Parental Support for Gender Dysphoria Help Teens?

    Does Parental Support for Gender Dysphoria Help Teens?1

    Let’s try a thought experiment. What if your daughter were to believe that she is actually a Na’vi humanoid from the film Avatar? You are baffled. The Na’vi are ten feet tall and have blue skin and yellow eyes. Your daughter is five foot six inches tall and has olive skin and brown eyes. You suffer,

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  • Does Our Diversity Portend Disintegration?

    Does Our Diversity Portend Disintegration?0

    After nine people were shot to death by a public transit worker, who then killed himself in San Jose, the latest mass murder in America, California Governor Gavin Newsom spoke for many on the eve of this Memorial Day weekend. “What the hell is going on in the United States of America? What the hell

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  • Does Morality Depend on Religion?

    Does Morality Depend on Religion?0

    One of the signature issues defining today’s society is the changing attitudes on religion, God, and traditional Christianity. Evidence of this fluctuation was most recently seen in a Pew survey on morality. According to Pew, respondents were asked whether or not belief in God was necessary in order to live a moral life. As the

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