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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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  • 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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