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  • An Acute Outbreak of Moralitis

    An Acute Outbreak of Moralitis0

    The ‘silly season’, they call it – when Parliament has closed for the summer holidays, and the newspapers scramble for titbits. Last week the media pounced on a commentary by the recently-resigned Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, the flaxen-haired politician pretending to be an essayist (or is it the other way round?). Don’t ban the burqa, Boris

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  • An Absolutely Shocking Statistic about America’s Education System

    An Absolutely Shocking Statistic about America’s Education System0

    • May 11, 2017

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  • Amy Schumer’s Crudity is Boring, Not Clever

    Amy Schumer’s Crudity is Boring, Not Clever0

    In the last several years, comedienne Amy Schumer has burst on the national scene and enjoyed a decent amount of success. Like many of today’s comedians, Schumer’s humor capitalizes upon crass and crude subjects, which the Los Angeles Times recently described in the following way: “Schumer’s renown for obliterating narrow ideas about female sexuality, double

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  • Amy Schumer: Unlikely but Persuasive Defender of Marriage

    Amy Schumer: Unlikely but Persuasive Defender of Marriage0

    Amy Schumer seems like an unlikely critic of the sexual revolution. But in her new memoir, The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo, the often ribald comedian writes of her parents’ marriages (three apiece) and divorces in a way that reads like fodder for a Dr. Laura book about family values. “I’ve had UTIs that lasted

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  • Amy Coney Barrett Exposes Society’s Double Standard on Family Size

    Amy Coney Barrett Exposes Society’s Double Standard on Family Size0

    Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee to the supreme court, has seven children. Unless you have been living under a rock, you already knew that. All the media coverage of her nomination, which was announced on September 26, devoted extensive attention to this fact. If a poll were to be taken, no doubt more Americans would

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  • Amy Coney Barrett and Our Topsy-Turvy Culture

    Amy Coney Barrett and Our Topsy-Turvy Culture0

    In 2017, the media reported that Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus was closing after a run of 146 years. I beg to disagree. The circus moved its three rings, lion tamers, and clowns to Capitol Hill, and the latest act is about to begin. In his essay “Democrats Take Aim At Amy Coney Barrett,”

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