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  • Politics and Compassion: Finding Common Ground Through Empathy

    Politics and Compassion: Finding Common Ground Through Empathy3

    While liberals tend to view conservatives as cold-hearted, rule-bound, and self-interested, right-wingers often consider left-wingers irrational, sensitive, and destructive. Both characterizations, are, of course, exaggerations, and they fail to recognize the political common ground of human empathy and compassion. In the far-off days before he was famous, Jordan Peterson, along with some colleagues, published research

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  • Politico.EU: ‘Europe’s Muslims hate the West’

    Politico.EU: ‘Europe’s Muslims hate the West’0

    Leon de Winter, a Dutch novelist and political commentator, pushed the boundaries of acceptable discussion following the Brussels attacks with a recent piece titled “Europe’s Muslims hate the West.”  At the core of his argument is the difficulty or even outright refusal of some Muslim immigrants to assimilate to the West. He begins by arguing

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  • Politicizing Pediatrics: How the AAP’s Transgender Guidelines Undermine Trust in Medical Authority

    Politicizing Pediatrics: How the AAP’s Transgender Guidelines Undermine Trust in Medical Authority1

    What should you do if your five-year-old son tells you that he is a girl? The proportion of children and young adults who say that they are transgender is rising at an extraordinary rate, not only in the United States but in other countries as well. In 2009–2010, only forty girls in the United Kingdom requested reassignment

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  • Politicized Classrooms Are a Problem. But Are State Legislatures Really the Solution?

    Politicized Classrooms Are a Problem. But Are State Legislatures Really the Solution?0

    Polling numbers tell the story. According to a recent Harvard University poll, 51% of those between 18 and 29 reject capitalism, while fully one-third support socialism. How to account for such numbers? Is it simply affection for a kindly Uncle Bernie (Sanders), coupled with disdain for an over-bearing Uncle Donald (Trump)? Or is it something

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  • Politicians Seem Loath to Let COVID End

    Politicians Seem Loath to Let COVID End0

    Two weeks to “slow the spread” proved to be a lie as state government stay-at-home orders stretched on and on, being taken away and reintroduced at the whims of governors rather than by acts of the various legislatures. Even when we were permitted out of our homes, they imposed rules on who we could visit,

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  • Politicians in Robes Destroy the Court

    Politicians in Robes Destroy the Court0

    Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s recent rejection of packing the Supreme Court is another welcome addition to the debate, muted in recent months, of whether additional seats should be added to America’s highest court in order to dilute the power of its conservative majority. It also appears to have jogged President Biden’s memory of the

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