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  • What the Bathroom Wars Really Mean

    What the Bathroom Wars Really Mean0

    It’s understandable that some people are impatient, even disgusted, with all the fuss about which public bathrooms transgendered people get to use. Such feelings arise in part from the natural assumption that it shouldn’t be anybody’s business what people look like in the privacy of the stall.  At least as understandable, however, is the fear

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  • What the ancient Greeks would have thought of Donald Trump

    What the ancient Greeks would have thought of Donald Trump0

    You know them already, but you probably don’t have a name for them let alone an understanding of what drives them and why. They are called cholerics. They are one of the four temperaments identified in the proto-psychology of the ancient Greeks. And they have an innate sense of self-worth and ambition that drives them

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  • What the American Founders Meant by Equality

    What the American Founders Meant by Equality3

    The Declaration of Independence famously proclaimed that “all men are created equal.” Thanks in part to that prestigious endorsement, “equality” has become a widely held social ideal. But what most modern-day egalitarians promote is far removed from the kind of equality that the authors of the Declaration were referring to. Many today invoke “equality” to

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  • What the Alabama IVF Ruling Says About the Right to Life

    What the Alabama IVF Ruling Says About the Right to Life3

    A ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court last week has been the cause of immense hyperventilating in the mainstream press—and the predictable invocation of scare terms like “theocracy” and “Christian nationalism.” In LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine, P.C., a fertility clinic that neglected to properly secure its frozen embryo nursery from a prying patient

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  • What the 7 Countries Included in Trump’s Ban Have in Common

    What the 7 Countries Included in Trump’s Ban Have in Common0

    (Editor’s note: The following is a roundup of archival stories related to Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia.) Last week, President Trump signed an executive order temporarily banning citizens from seven countries from entering the U.S. and indefinitely banning Syrian refugees. The stated aim of the order is to ensure the U.S. doesn’t

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  • What the 15-Hour Work Week Prophets Failed to Account for

    What the 15-Hour Work Week Prophets Failed to Account for0

    There is a utopian vision shared by hard workers everywhere: One day we will look back on all our accomplishments and say “at last, the age of respite and luxury has finally arrived!” But as the forecasted luxury manifests all around us, the respite is nowhere in sight. John Maynard Keynes, one of history’s most

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