In his play “The Knights,” the Athenian playwright Aristophanes creatively and humorously showed the insidious power of demagoguery. A satire written in the 5th-century B.C., the play depicted a Greek city-state that was succumbing to weaknesses of democracy. “The Knights,” one of the oldest Greek plays to survive, pits two smooth-talking demagogues against one another. One
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People get angry for all sorts of reasons, from the trivial ones (someone cut me off on the highway) to the really serious ones (people keep dying in Syria and nobody is doing anything about it). But, mostly, anger arises for trivial reasons. That’s why the American Psychological Association has a section of its website
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Harvey Weinstein is an overweight, crude, sex-addicted creep. But a powerful creep. At least until one week ago. Weinstein is the co-founder of the production-and-distribution companies Miramax and the Weinstein Company. He has shared the credit for more than 300 Oscar nominations and after Steven Spielberg and God, has been thanked more times than anyone
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Within the past several years, more celebrities and public figures have come forward to talk about their struggle with postpartum anxiety and depression. A few weeks ago, while appearing on Dr. Oz’s daytime television program, Ivanka Trump revealed her struggle with postpartum depression (PPD). Members of the media responded by accusing her of using it for
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It seems a month can’t go by without some new report of a college guest speaker being shouted down by students. Some examples include the following: A September 2016 talk at Georgetown University given by Benjamin Netanyahu was interrupted by a number of students who called Netanyahu a “war criminal.” Political commentator Heather Mac Donald
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Participation in the Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts has been a rite of passage for many young Americans for decades. But in recent years, these two organizations have gone from being a simple part of youth to a battleground for the political ideas which play out on a national stage. Thus, when news came out
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