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  • Dear Professor Tirrell: Speech isn’t Toxic, People Are

    Dear Professor Tirrell: Speech isn’t Toxic, People Are0

    In Jean-Paul Sartre’s play “No Exit,” the character Joseph Garcin concludes that torture and other forms of physical punishment pale in comparison to the torment of poor company. So he pronounces that “Hell is other people.” The same cynical view overcomes me when intelligent people theorize about the harm caused by offensive speech. Lynne Tirrell,

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  • Dear Media: Stop Putting Scare Quotes Around ‘Free Speech’

    Dear Media: Stop Putting Scare Quotes Around ‘Free Speech’0

    Irony punctuation is an age-old (and effective) literary device writers use as a sort of wink to readers. Techniques vary, but a particularly popular device is the use of “scare quotes,” which indicate to readers the word or phrase in the quotes should be viewed with skepticism. (A less subtle way of conveying this would

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  • Dear Educators: “Privilege” Is Theory, Not Fact

    Dear Educators: “Privilege” Is Theory, Not Fact0

    • April 9, 2015

    The idea of “privilege” has been a growing fad on college campuses over the past decade. While discussions of “white privilege,” “male privilege,” “heterosexual privilege,” and “able-bodied privilege” were once relegated to a few liberal arts classrooms, these discussions have seeped into the mainstream of campus life. Just this week, Campus Reform reported on a “Christian Privilege”

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  • Dear Donald: First, Let’s Make America Good Again

    Dear Donald: First, Let’s Make America Good Again0

    Donald Trump is our next president. What does this mean for Christian conservatives? On the plus side:  * America repudiated the Establishment of both political parties. * America repudiated the Mainstream Media. * America repudiated the Chattering Classes of both parties. Above all, Americans acted like Americans. We refused to let ourselves be manipulated by

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  • Dear Clinton Voters: You’re Confusing Me

    Dear Clinton Voters: You’re Confusing Me0

    Dear Clinton Voters, I confess that, as someone who voted for neither candidate in 2016, you have me baffled indeed. During the campaign you were warning us in the public that the bellicose nationalism of your opponent was a dark and dangerous direction. Yet now, with the candidate you opposed in office, it is precisely

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  • Dealing with Teens and Spouses: Some Guidelines Compliments of the Federal Government

    Dealing with Teens and Spouses: Some Guidelines Compliments of the Federal Government0

    By extracting some of the expressions buried in the blather employed by politicians and bureaucrats, America’s parents, husbands, and wives can find new and more effective ways to manage conversations with a teen or spouse. These gifts of gab should come as no surprise. After all, given the many failures of the federal government—the crisis

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