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I’m a Conservative Who Was Roofied by a Stranger. Here’s What I Think of the ‘Me Too’ Hashtag.0
- Culture
- October 23, 2017
Me, too. That phrase has floated around social media all week, a trend started in response to the recent sexual assault allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. The premise is simple, if not oversimplified: Shift the focus away from predators and onto the victims. Tens of thousands of women—and men—have shared their stories of rape,
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Is Feminism Making Women More Fragile?0
- Culture
- October 23, 2017
Has the feminist narrative spread so far that it’s actually hurting women and causing them to revert to being fragile creatures? That’s a question pondered by Dr. Joanna Williams in a new book entitled Women vs. Feminism: Why We All Need Liberating from the Gender Wars. Speaking to the Telegraph about the publication, Williams notes
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Paglia: The Dumbing Down of America Began in Public Schools 0
- Culture
- October 20, 2017
In the last several years, Americans have been sensing that something is seriously wrong with the current crop of young people. True, they are likely to have the most education credentials any generation has ever received. They also are technically-savvy, and as such, have a wealth of knowledge at their fingertips. But in spite of
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Four Fabrications About Firearms 0
- Politics
- October 20, 2017
According to two recent op-eds published by the New York Times: “more guns means more murder.” “more guns means less safety.” “a gun is 22 times more likely to be used in a criminal assault, an accidental death or injury, a suicide attempt or a homicide than it is for self-defense.” “gun-owning households were 41
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Why ‘Uncomfortable’ Books Like ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Are Precisely the Ones Kids Should be Reading 0
- Culture
- October 20, 2017
Another book has made the infamous “banned books” list. The public school district in Biloxi, Mississippi decided to pull To Kill a Mockingbird from the eighth grade reading curriculum this year because, district officials said, “There is some language in the book that makes people uncomfortable.” If the language in To Kill a Mockingbird makes
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The Rosy—and False—Narrative of American Public Schooling 0
- Education
- October 20, 2017
Humans tend to romanticize the past. In many ways it helps us see the good in what has been and what is now, but in other ways it disguises the truth. The history of American public schooling is a notable example of viewing history through rose-colored glasses. In my college and graduate school education classes,
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I’m a Conservative Who Was Roofied by a Stranger. Here’s What I Think of the ‘Me Too’ Hashtag.0