In the wake of the Florida school shooting earlier this month, Broward County police deputies are being accused of hiding outside the school while students were being murdered inside. Moreover, both the Sheriff’s department and the FBI are being accused of failing to follow up on clear and repeated threats made by the school shooter
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You probably haven’t even heard about it, but yesterday there was an exchange in the Supreme Court that future generations will regard as one of the most significant revelations of our political era. The case of Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky concerns a Minnesota statute that broadly bans all political apparel at the polling place.
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When most people hear the word “secular,” they associate it with those who either don’t believe in God or don’t attend church and pray on a regular basis. That’s one of the meanings of the term described by Charles Taylor in his monumental work A Secular Age: “… secularity consists in the falling off of
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Several years ago, the now world-famous clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson made a list of 32 rules for living and posted them on Quora. Those rules became so popular that Peterson fleshed out a handful of them in the book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. Peterson’s original list was headed by a simple
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Remember James Damore, the young Google engineer who was sacked last August for resisting the company’s gender equality programme? Damore wasn’t against having more women in tech, he just did not believe the present male-female imbalance is owing to sexism and can be rectified by changing men’s attitudes. The sexes tend to have different work
READ MOREMisinformation can be deadly, especially when it comes to issues like school shootings. This is because it can build support for policies that increase fatalities and generate opposition to reforms that can save lives. Despite these high stakes, a wide array of media outlets have spread fictions about violence, firearms, and armed security in the
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