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A Touch of Glass and Aesop
- Education, Featured, Literature, Uncategorized
- July 17, 2025
The tide appears to be turning against radical gender ideology in a big way. Just this Saturday, a transgender cyclist won a North Carolina race by more than five minutes. Retired tennis star Martina Navratilova said of the result: “What a joke.” A joke, indeed. It seems many Americans agree with Navratilova. A new Gallup poll, released Monday,
READ MORENew information from the 2022 Cooperative Election Study has brought renewed focus on connections between political affiliation, happiness, and mental health. Using graphs and data from this study, statistician and political analyst Nate Silver found that a sizable mental well-being gap exists between those on the right and left. Silver demonstrates that across every category
READ MOREIt would be difficult to think of any principle more basic than that criminal defendants can’t be convicted except by proof beyond a reasonable doubt. But left-leaning “fact-checker” PolitiFact doesn’t even know it. In an error-filled January 19 “fact-check,” PolitiFact’s Anna Orso writes about “the ‘clear and convincing’ standard used in criminal trials.” The clear
READ MOREHunter S. Thompson is one of my favorite authors and one of the smartest humorists of the last hundred years. He also shot himself in the head once he reached his mid-sixties. I don’t think he viewed himself as a humorist per se. Maybe I don’t fully understand the implications of that descriptor. I think of
READ MOREFor many conservatives today’s political news may resemble the early days of World War II: endless defeats and little to suggest future victories. Make no mistake, the defeats are real, but the situation is not as bleak as it may appear. The left triumphs in the political realm and this makes its victories public. By
READ MOREMany years ago, when I was teaching at Providence College, I showed up for a meeting of the faculty senate. That was rare for me. I loathe campus politics. But a friend of mine had put forward a proposal for a program in Classics, and I attended to lend my support. It turned out that
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