I recently had a delightful discussion with a friend who is a physician—we’ll call her Kortney—about the Affordable Care Act. I’ve long been skeptical of the idea that the federal government could create an efficient and affordable consumer marketplace for healthcare, a notoriously complicated and expansive system that touches many industries. Recent developments, I said,
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Although I confess that I’m a Christian, I pine sometimes for some good old fashioned paganism. Not the nonsense of the neo-pagans who have about as much in common with the real McCoy as a divorcee has with a virgin (to employ C. S. Lewis’ slap-in-the-face analogy), or, to move from the shockingly sublime to
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Early last year, the Higher Education Research Institute released their annual survey on the attitudes and ideas of college freshman. Not surprisingly, the survey mirrored events we’ve seen breaking out on campuses across the nation, namely, little tolerance for viewpoints differing from those of students. In fact, more than 70 percent of college freshmen in
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We would all like to live in a world without hate. Indeed, most of us would like to live in a life without hate. But I would like to make another, and more modest, proposal regarding “Hate-“. By this, I mean the use of the word “hate” to add extra zing to some public policy
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In English, “religion” is the most common, catch-all term to refer to any organized group that worships a higher power. It is at the center of some of modernity’s most-heated controversies on the subjects of freedom, reason, morality, culture, and violence, and is a word that often inspires polar reactions of both respect and scorn.
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Great human rights activists tend to know each other. Wednesday, Wesley J. Smith joined me on radio to talk about life, Nat Hentoff, and Wesley’s tribute in National Review Online last weekend. We have lost a great writer, civil libertarian, free speech absolutist, jazz historian, and pro-life advocate, Nat Hentoff, who died today at 91. As an
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