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- Culture, Education, Uncategorized
- April 28, 2025
My wife and I are in the process of finishing Shōgun, the new FX miniseries on Hulu based on James Clavell’s 1975 book. Shōgun was one of the first books that truly captivated me. I read it for the first time when I was 13 years old, and couldn’t put it down. Set in the early 17th century, Shōgun tells
READ MOREThe 2016 presidential campaign was supposed to end with something being shattered. And it did. It just didn’t end with the sort of shattering that Hillary Clinton had long had in mind. Poised to bring that proverbial glass ceiling crashing down, Ms. Clinton instead presided over the smash up of her White House dreams. Perhaps
READ MOREMany people wonder why I’m so outspoken about the madness of prescribing cross-sex hormones and genital mutilation surgery for patients who suffer from the desire to be the opposite sex, known clinically as gender dysphoria. I speak out because I consulted the “gender experts” when I had gender confusion, and they told me sex change
READ MOREVia the Chicago Tribune: Before a book is published and released to the public, it’s passed through the hands (and eyes) of many people: an author’s friends and family, an agent and, of course, an editor. These days, though, a book may get an additional check from an unusual source: a sensitivity reader, a person
READ MORELast week, University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson released a video in which he pushed back on the political correctness movement. “I am very concerned about what’s happening in universities,” said Peterson, a tenured research and clinical psychologist. Peterson has been called a bigot and “abusive” because he has declined to use genderless pronouns
READ MOREThe second season of Amazon’s “Rings of Power” somehow managed to be worse than the first season of the show, which is a rather high bar. The first season showed a disrespect for J.R.R. Tolkien’s world, but this season made things worse. It seems as if the showrunners don’t understand the basics of fantasy—or even storytelling. Before I
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