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Politics and Compassion: Finding Common Ground Through Empathy 3
- Culture, Politics
- November 1, 2023
While liberals tend to view conservatives as cold-hearted, rule-bound, and self-interested, right-wingers often consider left-wingers irrational, sensitive, and destructive. Both characterizations, are, of course, exaggerations, and they fail to recognize the political common ground of human empathy and compassion. In the far-off days before he was famous, Jordan Peterson, along with some colleagues, published research
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Are Electric Vehicles Worse for the Environment Than Gasoline-Powered Vehicles?2
- Science
- November 1, 2023
Electric vehicles require enormous damage to the environment just to produce their batteries — 250 tons of mining is required for a single battery, according to Real Clear Energy. Switching to electric cars would require a radical expansion of mining across the world, and the minerals for the car batteries will be refined mainly using the
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Parents Just Can’t Let Go 2
- Family, Education
- October 31, 2023
Parents want to give their kids more independence but just can’t bring themselves to do it. That’s the conclusion of a study from the University of Michigan’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital that came out this month. While parents believe it’s important for elementary school kids to do things “away from direct adult supervision,” the study
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Why Are People Ripping Down Israeli Hostage Posters?1
- Culture, Western Civilization
- October 31, 2023
Of the many troubling protests seen since the Hamas pogrom of October 7, surely among the most callous are those involving pro-Palestine activists ripping down posters of Israeli hostages. Some 235 Israelis were taken captive by Hamas terrorists, according to the American Jewish Committee. To date, only four abductees have been released. Of course, this
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Is Halloween a Christian Holiday?4
- Religion, Culture
- October 30, 2023
Conventional wisdom holds that Halloween is essentially a secular and pagan holiday, the result of the Christian Church appropriating an ancient Celtic harvest festival. But one strain of critical opinion tends to the view that the holiday was thoroughly Christian from the start. In the church calendar, Halloween (All Hallows’ Eve) is the beginning of
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Canada, Where Euthanasia Is Cheaper Than Health Care 1
- Culture, International
- October 27, 2023
I recently wrote about Canada’s euthanasia regime, which is set to expand in March 2024 when people with no more than a mental illness or a drug addiction will be given access to assisted suicide. Tragically, since bans on the practice were lifted in 2016, over 30,000 Canadians have been euthanized—a number that is sure
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