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  • Playing Favorites With Liz vs. Marjorie

    Playing Favorites With Liz vs. Marjorie0

    Last Sunday, Chris Wallace solemnly called attention to what he regards as a growing embarrassment in Congress: A Georgia representative, Marjorie Taylor Greene, whom Democrats have now stripped of all assignments in their august body because she refuses to keep her mouth shut. Congresswoman Greene thinks the presidential election on Nov. 3 was full of

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  • Playboy Says Terms Like ‘Toxic Masculinity’ Aren’t Helpful. But Did Playboy Give Us Toxic Masculinity?

    Playboy Says Terms Like ‘Toxic Masculinity’ Aren’t Helpful. But Did Playboy Give Us Toxic Masculinity?0

    These last few weeks, amid the flood of sexual assault allegations stemming from what pundits are calling the Weinstein Effect, it occurred to me that perhaps the gender feminists are right. After all, an objective person can only read so many stories about powerful men chasing women with manhood in hand—quite literally—before the thought creeps

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  • Play Has Been Replaced by Play Dates

    Play Has Been Replaced by Play Dates0

    • September 24, 2015

    Ever wonder what it must have been like to be a kid in the 1930s, ‘40s, or ‘50s? The kids from those eras were always coming up with some new creative show or form of play. Life was simple, but they used their imaginations and unstructured freedom to have a whole lot of fun. They

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  • Plato’s Very Relevant Warning about Politicians

    Plato’s Very Relevant Warning about Politicians0

    It’s amazing how relevant ancient works can be to modern life. Such is the case with Plato’s dialogue Gorgias?, which contains a very applicable warning about politicians. The Gorgias is a polemic against rhetoric—the art of speaking well and persuading others. Plato was not completely against rhetoric; he was okay with it if used “with

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  • Plato’s Problem with Loving Yourself

    Plato’s Problem with Loving Yourself0

    Arguably these days, there’s a lot of self-love going on. Indeed, isn’t that the point of almost all marketing campaigns. Our culture is awash in the love of self. Unfortunately, that’s not necessarily a good thing even for the self. In volume 4 of The Dialogues, Plato argues, “The greatest evil to men, generally, is

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  • Plato: Fix Yourself First

    Plato: Fix Yourself First0

    • August 25, 2015

      A passage from The Republic, Book IV, 443d-e, which has been highly influential on the Western tradition. According to Plato, a man first “sets his own house in good order and rules himself” – harmonizing the various parts of his soul – before he can ensure justice in his actions toward others:   Save this

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