Not long ago, feminist scholar and activist Camille Paglia made waves when she excoriated those who insist on the use of genderless pronouns: “How dare you, you sniveling little maniac, tell us how we’re going to use pronouns. Go take a hike!” Now Paglia is back with some more surprising – and politically incorrect –
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I often have a hard time saying “no” when it comes to social invitations and new opportunities. It’s probably because of a fear of missing out or simply wanting to please others. This tendency has become increasingly problematic since becoming a parent. My 4 and 6-year-old daughters are bombarded with activity requests, birthday party invitations,
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The 2016 presidential campaign was supposed to end with something being shattered. And it did. It just didn’t end with the sort of shattering that Hillary Clinton had long had in mind. Poised to bring that proverbial glass ceiling crashing down, Ms. Clinton instead presided over the smash up of her White House dreams. Perhaps
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“You completely lack empathy.” This was what a longtime acquaintance said to me a few months ago after I shared on Facebook a quote from Jeffrey Tucker, a prominent libertarian scholar, which touched on federalism and Donald Trump’s rescinding of an executive order on transgender discrimination. The comment stuck in my craw. I place high
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Recently Daniel Lattier wrote about an elementary school in Edina, Minnesota, where public school children “are being trained to see the world through the lens of race.” Robert Jones, writing in The New York Times, warns that our distinctly American identity is in danger of being lost. Jones is not talking about the loss of
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Homo sapiens is a very moody species. Even though sadness and bad moods have always been part of the human experience, we now live in an age that ignores or devalues these feelings. In our culture, normal human emotions like temporary sadness are often treated as disorders. Manipulative advertising, marketing and self-help industries claim happiness
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