Standing before a dozen microphones in Wisconsin on Tuesday, Julia Jackson called for prayers and healing – not violence – following the shooting of her son, Jacob Blake. “If Jacob knew what was going on as far as that goes, the violence and destruction, he would be very unpleased,” Mrs. Jackson said. Blake, a 29-year-old
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Hollywood’s first treatment of the pioneering paleontologist Mary Anning invented an entirely fictious lesbian love story, taking the focus away from her compelling narrative as a self-taught genius forced to operate on the outskirts of British geology due to her gender. As a result, Ammonite may be the least feminist movie that comes out this year. Known
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Is the coronavirus crisis ever going to end? It is the question we are all asking – particularly the youngest members of our society. While the science shows the virus itself is not very dangerous to children, the emotional damage they are suffering from the shutdowns is potentially enormous. Their lives have been turned upside down. In
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Why should only the middle and upper classes enjoy the advantages of marriage as opposed to cohabitation? This is among questions posed by a recent Centre of Social Justice UK report called “Family Structure Still Matters.” With married parents twice as likely to stay together than cohabiting ones, their kids can benefit from numerous advantages
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A reader of my articles sent me the following two words along with the cryptic suggestion that, given our times and my sensibilities, I might make use of them in a column. Having no idea at all what either word meant, I looked them up online and unearthed these definitions: Apophenia (/æpoʊˈfiːniə/) is the tendency to mistakenly
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Silence is violence. That’s the attitude of radical “woke” activists, who increasingly demand that fellow Americans not only agree with them, but publicly demonstrate their support at all times. Several viral videos from Washington, D.C., on Monday show groups marching around the city, shouting slogans, and yelling things like “white silence is violence.” In the
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