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  • The Warriors Won’t be Visiting Trump’s White House, and that’s a Shame

    The Warriors Won’t be Visiting Trump’s White House, and that’s a Shame0

    Via Yahoo News: The 2017 NBA Champions Golden State Warriors unanimously decided as a team not to meet Donald Trump in the White House, as is custom for winning teams. The Warriors beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 129-120 to seal the hard-fought series 4-1. It is the second championship for the California team in three years,

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  • The War Over ‘Toxic Masculinity’

    The War Over ‘Toxic Masculinity’0

    Thomas B. Edsall of The New York Times published a provocative piece the other day on the American Psychological Association’s recently released “Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men.” The Guidelines, which seemed a kind of attack on what some people call “traditional masculinity,” had kicked up a fair amount of controversy among academics and commentators. That was

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  • The War on Poverty is Not Going Like You Think (We’re Actually Winning)

    The War on Poverty is Not Going Like You Think (We’re Actually Winning)0

    Our World in Data put out a chart recently showing positive and perhaps surprising news: the world is winning the fight against extreme poverty. And it is winning in a big way.  The chart, based on data collected by Max Roser, an economist and research fellow at the University of Oxford, shows that the number

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  • The War on History Comes for George Washington

    The War on History Comes for George Washington0

    They finally came for George Washington. The perpetual war on history now has the father of our country in its sights as the San Francisco Board of Education considers removing a mural of Washington from a local school. If the board succeeds in politicizing Washington, whose legacy was once so secured and uniting that his home

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  • The War on Free Speech is Just Beginning0

    Will the war on freedom just peter out? No. Let’s look at four reasons why not. People are fed up with political correctness. No guff. Bill Maher is. Clint Eastwood is. We are told that Canadians are fed up too. But so? Two Canadian literary magazine editors were forced to resign from their national publications this month because they do not

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  • The War of All Men Against All Men

    The War of All Men Against All Men0

    Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture typically features a column called “What the Editors Are Reading.” In September’s issue, corresponding editor William Murchison looks at journalist Walter Lippmann’s Essays in the Public Philosophy, first published in 1955. There Lippmann wrote, “If what is good, what is right, what is true, is only what the individual ‘chooses’ to

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