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  • No, Tariffs Won’t Ruin Christmas

    No, Tariffs Won’t Ruin Christmas0

    President Trump says he will impose a 10 percent tariff on $300 billion worth of Chinese imports beginning September 1. The tariff would affect consumer goods primarily, according to an analysis by Goldman Sachs. Cue the histrionics. The Washington Post laments that these tariffs will ruin America’s “holiday” shopping season. The Post cites a study claiming that the price

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  • No, slavery didn’t build America.

    No, slavery didn’t build America.0

    The issue of slavery in the United States was ultimately decided by the Civil War (1861-1865). It was a showdown between the free North and the slave South, amongst other things. It was also one of the first “total wars” seen by the West in a very long time. As Warfare in the Western World:

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  • No, People Aren’t Fine Just the Way They Are

    No, People Aren’t Fine Just the Way They Are0

    I remember being amused in my college philosophy classes that ancient philosophers like Plato considered the sphere the shape of perfection. I had spent a lot of time (and still do today) trying not to be spherical.   Throughout years of struggling with my weight I have noticed something perverse happening in myself. Just when

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  • No, Opposites Do Not Attract

    No, Opposites Do Not Attract0

    Everyone seems to agree that opposites attract. Young and old people, happy and distressed couples, single folks and married partners – all apparently buy the classic adage about love. Relationship experts have written books based on this assumption. It’s even been internalized by people who are on the hunt for a partner, with 86 percent

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  • No, Not Everyone Is Entitled to Their Opinion

    No, Not Everyone Is Entitled to Their Opinion2

    It’s commonly believed today that “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.” What nonsense. Where does this “entitlement” regarding opinions come from? Who has bestowed it? The statement is a decidedly modern one. No person until very recently in history would have dreamed of saying something so silly. It’s usually attributed to the American financier

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  • No, Ladies, We Cannot Have It All

    No, Ladies, We Cannot Have It All4

    The phrase “having it all” came from the title of a 1982 book written by Helen Gurley Brown, then editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine. As Antoinette Lattouf, writing in The Guardian in early 2023, put it, this self-help book for women focused on “money, sex, diet, exercise, and appearance.” Notably, it made no mention of children

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