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Psychologist: What is the role of the father?0
- Culture
- November 20, 2017
Study after study shows the tremendously negative impact of not having a father present during childhood. While the damage is especially evident with boys, girls also suffer the consequences — hence the unfortunate phrase, “She has daddy issues.” Despite the significant evidence that biological fathers are critical to healthy childhood development, our culture doesn’t seem to
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Progress Comes Through Conflict?0
- Culture
- November 20, 2017
When we pontificate upon or dream of further human progress, it is often accompanied by utopian images of peace, equality, and tolerance. And yet if we look to the past to measure human progress we find not peace and equality, but rather conflict and intolerance. In The Devil’s Pleasure Palace, author Michael Walsh makes this
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‘I Love You Daddy’ is a Triumph of Relativism 0
- Culture
- November 20, 2017
When a New York Times story brought allegations of sexual harassment against vulgar-yet-brilliant comedian Louis C.K. last week, the theatrical distribution deal for I Love You, Daddy, a film he secretly wrote, directed, starred in, and edited last year, was quickly cancelled. I Love You, Daddy tells the story of Glen, a successful television
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Canadian T.A. Reveals that Objective Truth is Not the Goal of Higher Education 0
- Culture
- November 20, 2017
Look at the majority of students in higher education today and one will come away with the idea that they are unable to handle debate or uncomfortable ideas. But Lindsay Shepherd is challenging that stereotype. Shepherd is a master’s student at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. As the teaching assistant in a class on critical
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Why Apple’s Diversity Chief is Out 0
- Politics
- November 20, 2017
Denise Young Smith, Apple’s diversity chief, is stepping down, reports say. The move is strange. Young has only been in the job for six months. But reports suggest her departure is linked to “recent controversial remarks about white men.” Several weeks ago, at the One Young World Summit in Bogotá, Colombia, Young suggested that diversity
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Venezuela’s Default Disaster 0
- Economics
- November 20, 2017
Socialism always promises heaven and gives hell. In the early hours of Thursday, November 2, the Maduro regime certified its latest failure with what they promised would never happen: technical default. With his usual arrogance, Maduro issued a “decree” demanding “the refinancing and restructuring of the debt as of November 3.” That is, default. The bad news for
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Psychologist: What is the role of the father?0