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  • A Principled Way of Addressing Trans Athletics

    A Principled Way of Addressing Trans Athletics0

    Swimmer Lia Thomas swept her individual races at the recent Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships, breaking numerous records in the process. Thomas is now headed to the NCAA Championships in mid-March, albeit with much controversy, for Thomas’s recent identification transition from a man to a woman is perceived by many, teammates included, as an

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  • A Primer on Courage

    A Primer on Courage0

    • September 16, 2015

    Courage, also known as “fortitude” or “bravery,” is one of the four cardinal virtues along with prudence, justice, and temperance. Along with temperance, courage helps one to conquer the obstacles to doing the good with prudence and justice. According to Aristotle, one possesses the virtue of courage if he/she “faces and … fears the right things …

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  • A Powerful Animated Guide About Where Not to Seek for Happiness

    A Powerful Animated Guide About Where Not to Seek for Happiness3

    Earlier this year, nearly one-quarter of all Yale undergraduates enrolled in a course on how to be happy. “A lot of us are anxious, stressed, unhappy, numb,” a freshman taking the course told the New York Times. “The fact that a class like this has such large interest speaks to how tired students are of numbing

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  • A Possible Drawback to Letting Everybody Vote

    A Possible Drawback to Letting Everybody Vote0

    In America, the ability of every citizen 18 and older to vote is considered one of the country’s hallmarks of “freedom and equality”. And that’s not only the case in America. Indeed, most countries in the world now have a system of what’s known as “universal suffrage”. But as with every system, there are some

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  • A Political Rumble in Wyoming Reveals Divisions Within Trump’s Team

    A Political Rumble in Wyoming Reveals Divisions Within Trump’s Team0

    It’s hard to find anyone these days outside National Review’s deluded pages sorry to see Rep. Liz Cheney dragged across the political concrete. Besides rubbing raw the hide of a realigning right with her grating adoration for George W. Bush, Cheney embodies a conservative establishment that has conserved little more than its sinecures and pretensions.  The prospect of Donald

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  • A Poignant Quote from Will Durant

    A Poignant Quote from Will Durant0

    Strangely enough, the odd malaise and pessimism that occupies our times isn’t unique to this decade. It has been building for some time now as we of the West have moved further from our roots and the natural order of things. Check out this excerpt from Will Durant’s On the Meaning of Life from 1932: “This

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