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  • The Heroism of Civilization

    The Heroism of Civilization1

    A long-held but somewhat flexible fantasy I have engaged in periodically since about middle school has me doing some truly unusual, heroic thing—perhaps pulling someone from a fire or heroically diving into the rapids to save some helpless person from drowning or even taking a bullet to protect a child. (I’m afraid of heights, so

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  • The Heresy of Lightweight Gastronomy

    The Heresy of Lightweight Gastronomy22

    Come, pupils. Let’s light a cigarette for Anthony Bourdain … or I suppose a Zyn will do in 2025. In a recent column for “The Free Press,” Suzy Weiss argues that the late chef Anthony Bourdain approached both himself and food with excessive seriousness. That his televised sojourns, marked by war zones and whiskey, were not voyages

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  • The Herd of Sheep in American Schools

    The Herd of Sheep in American Schools0

    By now you’ve probably heard of Harvard Professor Elizabeth Bartholet, whose name catapulted into the public’s view when she called for a “presumptive ban” on homeschooling. Ironically, her call for a homeschooling ban came right when the entire nation was forced to homeschool due to the COVID-19 outbreak.   Bartholet’s idea spawned so much discussion

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  • The Heart of the Matter: Families and Fatherhood

    The Heart of the Matter: Families and Fatherhood0

    In “Back To Discipline: Disparate Impact Reflects Disparate Reality”, Heather MacDonald applauds the Federal Commission on School Safety’s repudiation “of disparate-impact analysis.” She writes: Disparate-impact analysis holds that if a facially-neutral policy negatively affects blacks and Hispanics at a higher rate than whites and Asians, it is discriminatory. Noticing the behavioral differences that lead to

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  • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter5

    Is there an epidemic of loneliness in the United States? Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy thought so. In 2023, he declared a national epidemic of loneliness and isolation, stating in June 2024, “The overall mortality impact of loneliness and isolation are on par with smoking daily, and they’re even greater than the mortality impact we

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  • The He-Man Woman Haters Club: Welcome to the World of the Incel

    The He-Man Woman Haters Club: Welcome to the World of the Incel2

    Suppose you were a young man living in a society drenched in sex. Suppose movies featured erotic scenes of beautiful women making love with handsome men. Suppose magazines featured gorgeous models in advertisements. Suppose many books of fiction, some of which our parents and grandparents would have regarded as pornographic, featured vivid sexual acts. Suppose

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