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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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  • A Physician’s Response to Asymptomatic COVID

    A Physician’s Response to Asymptomatic COVID0

    Blood tests that check for exposure to the coronavirus are starting to come online, and preliminary findings suggest that many people have been infected without knowing it. Even people who do eventually experience the common symptoms of COVID-19 don’t start coughing and spiking fevers the moment they’re infected. William Petri is a professor of medicine

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  • A Philosophical Examination of Porn

    A Philosophical Examination of Porn0

    Some months ago, Intellectual Takeout blogged thus: “From a philosophical standpoint, the following seems to be the case: For those who believe pornography is intrinsically evil, the onus is on them to explain how its use does not accord with the proper telos, or goal, of human sexual activity. For those who believe pornography is a

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  • A philosopher argues why no one has the right to refuse services to LGBT people

    A philosopher argues why no one has the right to refuse services to LGBT people0

    Ever since the Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that gay people have the right to marry, those upset by this ruling have shifted their strategy from denying the right to limiting its enforcement. Even if gay people have a right to marry, they argue, people also have the liberty to practice their religion as they

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  • A Perfect Solution to the Statue-Toppling Problem

    A Perfect Solution to the Statue-Toppling Problem0

    Schools ought to teach history, not protest it.   A number of teachers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill have pledged to withhold more than 2,000 grades in protest over the university’s plans to house “Silent Sam” in a separate on-campus building. Silent Sam is a statue of a Confederate soldier that stood in

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  • A Parenting Reality Check

    A Parenting Reality Check0

    Once again, readers, I. MUST. RANT. Why? I … just heard from a mom trying to get two other families to let their kids play with her kids in her yard for an hour a week. Unsupervised. AN HOUR A WEEK. She lives on a quiet street in quiet suburb in a quiet state. Classic

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