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  • J.R.R. Tolkien on Sex and Love

    J.R.R. Tolkien on Sex and Love1

    J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) was one of the intellectual giants of the 20th century. Best known as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1945. He left this position in 1945 to take

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  • J.M. Keynes’ Dreams of a Eugenic Future

    J.M. Keynes’ Dreams of a Eugenic Future0

    Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren ranks among the best-known contributions in the economic writings of John Maynard Keynes. First prepared as a lecture for schoolchildren in 1928, the article predicted a coming age of leisure and economic abundance in the not-too-distant future. The economist’s century-long prophecy of a 15-hour work week, attained through scientific ordering

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  • J.K. Rowling and the Close-Mindedness of Sloganeering

    J.K. Rowling and the Close-Mindedness of Sloganeering0

    J.K. Rowling can’t seem to escape the magical land of politically correct shaming. The famous author of the Harry Potter series is back in the news, this time inadvertently pulling fellow author Stephen King into the fray. Unfortunately, King seems unable to stand against the mob as well as Rowling. Rowling first ran afoul of the Twitter mob several weeks ago

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  • J.D. Martinez’s Second Amendment Stance Isn’t Controversial. It’s Patriotic.

    J.D. Martinez’s Second Amendment Stance Isn’t Controversial. It’s Patriotic.0

    Someone recently dug up an old pro-Second Amendment Instagram post by Boston Red Sox star J.D. Martinez, in which the potential Triple Crown winner posted a picture of Adolf Hitler featuring the quote, “To conquer a nation, First disarm it’s (sic) citizens.” Martinez captioned the post, “This is why I will always stay strapped! #thetruth.”

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  • J. K. Rowling, Burn The Witch!

    J. K. Rowling, Burn The Witch!0

    Could 2020 possibly get more strange? J. K. Rowling, creator of Harry Potter, has been canceled. That’s right. The author beloved by millennials everywhere, a generation who came of age alongside the boy wizard, has now been called out by their younger, more woke, siblings. Her crime, ironically enough, is to deny the power of

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  • J. K. Rowling Isn’t Feminist Enough for Trans Activists

    J. K. Rowling Isn’t Feminist Enough for Trans Activists0

    • December 19, 2019

    Here’s a new acronym for everyone to learn: TERF. This stands for “trans-exclusionary radical feminist,” which appears to be a feminist who doesn’t conform to transgender advocates’ views of what a feminist ought to be, specifically regarding the issue of transgender rights. The term does seem to invite some problems. Hordes of Twitters user and

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