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Want Teenage Boys to Read? Give Them Books About Heroes 0
- Culture
- August 23, 2017
Studies show that teenage boys lag behind teenage girls in reading. Even in adulthood, women are far more enthusiastic readers; two out of three adults who say they never read books are male. Debate rages about whether biology or culture is to blame, but the fact remains that girls simply seem to enjoy reading more—how
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My ‘Sex Change’ Was a Myth. Why Trying to Change One’s Sex Will Always Fail.0
- Culture
- August 23, 2017
Recently, during a radio show on which I appeared as a guest, a caller posed a question I frequently get asked: “Do the administration of cross-gender hormones and genital surgery change a boy into a girl or a girl into a boy?” The answer is simple: biologically, not at all. Underneath all the cosmetic procedures,
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College Prez: Universities Churning Out Degrees in Opinions Rather than Truth 1
- Culture
- August 23, 2017
You may recall that a few years ago, the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, Dr. Everett Piper, bluntly informed students that his school was not a day care, but a university. Dr. Piper’s words made waves because they were some of the first to acknowledge the growing epidemic of coddled victimhood on college campuses. Dr.
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The New York Times Continues Its Tradition of Whitewashing Communism 0
- Philosophy
- August 22, 2017
It seems communism is back in vogue at The New York Times. A sad but common issue in the modern West is that progressives have created a fanciful and distorted picture of socialism to make it seem like an intriguing alternative to American-style capitalism. Ikea socialism—with Sweden as the model—is an utterly distorted, but at
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Why Christians Must Get Poverty and Inequality Right 0
- Economics
- August 22, 2017
Over the last two decades, global poverty has plummeted and the world’s poorest people have steadily climbed out of the shadow of death. Yet many Christians cannot distinguish between dire poverty and income inequality, falsely believe both are worsening, and oppose the very policies that have lifted the world’s poor out of malnutrition. “Why do
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Why are More Women in the Helping Professions? Hint: It’s Not the Patriarchy’s Fault 0
- August 22, 2017
“Want to close wage gap? Step one: Change your major from feminist dance therapy to electrical engineering.” This tweet by American Enterprise Institute scholar Christina Hoff Sommers has been loved 32,000 times since 2015. It points to a fundamental truth about the reason that women are on average paid less than men. It’s because they
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Want Teenage Boys to Read? Give Them Books About Heroes 0