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  • The In-N-Out Burger Boycott Shows that Under Socialism, Those Who Don’t Obey Won’t Eat

    The In-N-Out Burger Boycott Shows that Under Socialism, Those Who Don’t Obey Won’t Eat0

    Last week, Eric Bauman, the chair of the California Democratic Party, called for a boycott of the popular California hamburger chain In-N-Out Burger. What was In-N-Out Burger’s crime? Los Angeles Magazine reported that the burger chain had contributed to the Republican Party. Bauman tweeted a link to the story about the contribution and called the

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  • The Impulses Driving Transgender ‘Vandals’

    The Impulses Driving Transgender ‘Vandals’1

    Want to know some surprising facts about transgenderism? Physician Michael Laidlaw has some to offer in a recent article for Public Discourse: More than 60 gender clinics have opened in the U.S. since 2007. The transgender student population is growing. Surveys show “as many as 3 percent of school kids now identify as transgender.” One

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  • The Impossibility of a Police-less Society

    The Impossibility of a Police-less Society0

    The hue and cry for a police-less society is serious stuff. For some advocates, the term “defund the police” refers simply to making victimless crimes (drug use, etc.) the responsibility of social workers rather than police officers. But to others it means eliminating law enforcement entirely. Is such a condition possible? Can a society function

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  • The Importance of Reading Difficult Books

    The Importance of Reading Difficult Books3

    In his work The Western Canon, Harold Bloom wrote that a “reader does not read for easy pleasure or to expiate social guilt, but to enlarge a solitary existence.” The apparent message in Bloom’s flourish is that a reader ought to be after something more difficult to attain than mere pleasure. Passive consumption of entertainment

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  • The Importance of Poetry

    The Importance of Poetry5

    The unfortunate truth is that virtually no one reads poetry anymore. Though there are many reasons why this may be the case, as a former educator, the common grievances I heard against poetry were that it was too abstract, complex, and generally wandering. But it is for these very reasons that poetry is one of

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  • The Importance of Philosophical Fiction

    The Importance of Philosophical Fiction2

    I must admit that I have not always been a serious reader. Like the vast majority of consumers of art, I was more interested in the escapist element of fiction and cinema. I would read a book or watch a film as a way to escape into another world for a couple hours. I was

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