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  • ‘Mother Jones’ Goes Pro-Guilt and Anti-Logic on IVF

    ‘Mother Jones’ Goes Pro-Guilt and Anti-Logic on IVF1

    Recently,  Mother Jones ran a pair of articles (here and here) on the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos produced via IVF procedures should be considered children, in effect criminalizing the routine destruction of unused or “defective” embryos. The articles lament the perceived unjust consequences of treating human embryos as people. The authors, Kiera

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  • ‘Micro’ K-12 Schools Offer Big Solutions for Students

    ‘Micro’ K-12 Schools Offer Big Solutions for Students0

    New research estimates that some students’ grades will never catch back up after falling during the pandemic. Recently, some in the mainstream media worried that the federal taxpayer money that lawmakers sent to K-12 schools during COVID-19 may not be enough to help schools turn things around. But public schools—also known as “assigned” schools—had money before the pandemic, and

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  • ‘Marriage Story’ Is the Perfect Movie for Our Narcissistic Time

    ‘Marriage Story’ Is the Perfect Movie for Our Narcissistic Time0

    It is impossible to watch the critically acclaimed Oscar-nominated “Marriage Story” without bearing in mind that America no longer takes marriage very seriously. The plaudits showered on the film seem like no accident. A melodramatic tale about two bicoastal (New York and Los Angeles) artists going through a painful separation, “Marriage Story” has been praised

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  • ‘Man-Flu’: It’s real?

    ‘Man-Flu’: It’s real?0

    It’s day six of the man-flu: my head pounds, body aches, and some foul demon is still sucking the marrow from my bones, so heavy are my limbs. Surprisingly, my wife who is “100-months pregnant” and may be going into labor at any moment has been mostly doting, urging rest so that I can pull the

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  • ‘Lookism’ Is the Newest Form of Bigotry

    ‘Lookism’ Is the Newest Form of Bigotry0

    Don’t look now, but “lookism” may be the next politically incorrect thing you are guilty of. The latest installment of our nation’s utopian quest, “lookism” is defined as “the discriminatory treatment of people who are considered physically unattractive.” To be sure, beauty is always culturally defined, and hard to quantify precisely, but in today’s America

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  • ‘Logan’ and the Challenges of Fatherhood

    ‘Logan’ and the Challenges of Fatherhood0

    Hugh Jackman has been playing Wolverine for seventeen years and nine films, longer than his young co-star Dafne Keen has been alive. In Logan, his R-rated and final ride as the adamantium-clawed mutant, Jackman embraces his age and experience to play a grizzled, broken-down Wolverine, a man of violence who has lost his way—until a

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