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  • The Afghanistan Quagmire Never Ends. Why?

    The Afghanistan Quagmire Never Ends. Why?0

    What exactly is the US military doing in Afghanistan? I’m hardly alone in wondering. The confusion is so widespread that opposition has bled into public indifference. After a decade and a half – six years longer than the US had troops in Vietnam – it’s just something we do.   What we are doing and

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  • The Affective Fallacy: Understanding How Your Feelings Can Make You Dumb

    The Affective Fallacy: Understanding How Your Feelings Can Make You Dumb0

    The NBC show Friday Night Lights is about high school football in a small Texas community. High-school students are taking part in a class discussion when the brash star halfback, Brian “Smash” Williams crudely argues that monogamy is unnatural for a male. The teacher is puzzled by Smash’s statement. A female friend and classmate, Waverly,

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  • The ADHD Overdiagnosis Epidemic Is a Schooling Problem, Not a Child One

    The ADHD Overdiagnosis Epidemic Is a Schooling Problem, Not a Child One0

    Childhood exuberance is now a liability. Behaviors that were once accepted as normal, even if mildly irritating to adults, are increasingly viewed as unacceptable and cause for medical intervention. High energy, lack of impulse control, inability to sit still and listen, lack of organizational skills, fidgeting, talking incessantly—these typical childhood qualities were widely tolerated until

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  • The Actual ‘Sword in the Stone’?

    The Actual ‘Sword in the Stone’?0

    Even if you haven’t actually read a version of the legend of King Arthur, you’ve probably seen one of the movies or TV miniseries about it. I well remember the least serious: the 1963 animated Disney classic The Sword in the Stone, which many children from then on have also seen. We just don’t have

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  • The ACLU Loses Its Way

    The ACLU Loses Its Way0

    The American Civil Liberties Union used to be a great institution. Founded in January 1920, the ACLU sought to become, in its own words, “the nation’s premier defender of the rights enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.” Over the decades, the organization fought for civil liberties even when no one else would. The ACLU fought against

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  • The Absurdity of Political Correctness Has Reached New Heights

    The Absurdity of Political Correctness Has Reached New Heights0

    A few years ago, I put together an amusing collection of stories comparing truly bizarre examples of political correctness and bureaucratic idiocy in the United States and United Kingdom. I was especially impressed (in a you-must-be-joking fashion) that a British job placement office got in trouble for discrimination because they sought “reliable” and “hard-working” applicants.

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