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  • Politics By Infomercial

    Politics By Infomercial0

    If you’re like me, you dread presidential campaigns. With nearly a year and a half to go until the next election, we are already being inundated with banal sloganeering. It’s like being bombarded with advertisements for products you have no use for, have no desire to purchase, and yet are forced to choose which one

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  • Politics Are Killing Medicine

    Politics Are Killing Medicine17

    Recently I needed to visit the Urgent Care Center here in Front Royal, Virginia. I have gone there two or three times over the past four years, usually waiting around 15 minutes to see a doctor or a nurse. This time the woman at the front desk told me my wait would be between three

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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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