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Not Every Tragedy Has a Political Solution 0
- November 6, 2017
It only took a few hours after the news of the Texas massacre for the New York Times to start its gun-control incantations again. “Republicans leaders in Congress do nothing,” the paper writes. “Or, really, so far they’ve done the same thing they have always done: offered thoughts and prayers.” But here is a truth.
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Why Men and Women Can No Longer Be Friends 0
- November 6, 2017
In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein allegations, the quest to stamp out sexual harassment against women has spread like wildfire, not only in the U.S., but also across the pond to our European counterparts. As many women have made clear, unwanted attention from men, particularly when it is the aggressive, Weinstein-esque form of sexual
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5 Strategies for Using Time More Effectively 0
- November 6, 2017
Cal Newport is the author of two of the most influential non-fiction books of the past decade, So Good They Can’t Ignore You and Deep Work. Recently, he recommended the delightful 1910 book How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by the Englishman Arnold Bennett. While Newport’s work focuses on how to improve our
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Psychologist Dares to Say That ‘Mothers Are Biologically Necessary for Babies’0
- November 6, 2017
The chief characteristic of postmodern secular liberalism is its tendency to openly deny reality. The most recent occasion of opposing the obvious is Psychologist Erica Komisar, whose new book, Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters, has come close to causing fainting spells among the Cultural Authorities. What did Komisar claim
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Millennials in America Have a Troubling View of Communism and Socialism 0
- November 6, 2017
Last year the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation released their inaugural annual report on U.S. attitudes towards communism and socialism. The results were dispiriting. “We discovered a rampant amnesia about the crimes of communist regimes,” says Marion Smith, “and a growing inclination among younger Americans toward favorable views of communism and socialism.” Their latest survey
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Trump’s Rhetoric—the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly—Won’t Determine His Presidency 0
- November 3, 2017
‘Tis well said again; and it is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds. – King Henry in William Shakespeare’s King Henry VIII As someone who has spent virtually his whole life in the labor of words, spoken and written, prose and poetry and political commentary,
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Not Every Tragedy Has a Political Solution 0