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  • The Fidget Toy Craze: What’s Really Driving It

    The Fidget Toy Craze: What’s Really Driving It0

    You’ve likely seen the headlines lately regarding the latest fad frenzy: fidget toys. These toys, most popularly fidget spinners and fidget cubes, are simple gadgets that have taken over schools and classrooms across the country, to the point that they are now being banned by many of them. Initially touted as a concentration tool for children with attention issues,

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  • The Few, the Proud… the Educated

    The Few, the Proud… the Educated0

    It is often said that the measure of a civilization is how it treats its weakest members. But when it comes to education, historically, the opposite is true: one can often judge a civilization’s staying power by its most highly-educated members. In Education and Culture in the Barbarian West, historian Pierre Riché notes that classical

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  • The Fertility Industry Is a Science Fiction Nightmare

    The Fertility Industry Is a Science Fiction Nightmare0

    The fertility industry has become a multi-billion dollar enterprise, buying genetic material and selling the promise of children to same-sex couples, single parents, and heterosexual couples struggling with infertility. Both sperm and egg agencies seek donors with “desirable” traits. Male donors for example, must be at least 5’8” tall, and educational background, athletic ability, and hair

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  • The Feminization of Society Hurts Everyone

    The Feminization of Society Hurts Everyone3

    Sean Penn made waves with his comments about masculinity and femininity. The pugnacious actor, who once won an Academy Award for his portrayal of gay rights activist Harvey Milk, and who called for the imprisonment of anyone who called Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez a dictator isn’t exactly known for traditional viewpoints. Given his left-wing views, his comments

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  • The Feminist Fantasy: Strong Women, Weak Men, No Children

    The Feminist Fantasy: Strong Women, Weak Men, No Children0

    Writer Andrew Davies, who has won general acclaim for his television adaptations of historical novels, including most famously Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, has complained in a new BBC 4 documentary that ‘it is now “compulsory” to have a leading lady capable of fending for herself’, and ‘jokes that he now finds himself “pleading” to write

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  • The Feds Fought a Two-Year Battle Against the Truth to Prosecute Cliven Bundy—and the Truth Won

    The Feds Fought a Two-Year Battle Against the Truth to Prosecute Cliven Bundy—and the Truth Won0

    In April 2014, rancher Cliven Bundy put out a nationwide plea. He claimed the federal government, with whom he had been in a land feud for two decades, was taking his property and had come armed for war. “They have my house surrounded,” Bundy said, from Bunkerville, Nevada. “The federal government is stealing my property

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