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  • Putting a Blowtorch to ‘Toxic Masculinity’

    Putting a Blowtorch to ‘Toxic Masculinity’0

    With Australia’s catastrophic bushfires making headlines around the world, newspapers featured a photo of an iconic kangaroo illuminated by an apocalyptic scene of a burning house. But worse than the hundreds of houses lost or the millions of hectares of land burnt are the fatalities. So far at least 19 people have died, with dozens

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  • Cracks in the Concrete: Is PC Culture in Danger of Extinction?

    Cracks in the Concrete: Is PC Culture in Danger of Extinction?0

    Have we finally hit bottom? In Alcoholics Anonymous, “hitting bottom” means you wake up one morning in yet another drunken stupor, can’t remember anything you said or did the previous evening, realize you either need to change your life or die, and get yourself to a treatment center or an AA meeting. Hitting bottom means

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  • MAGA Hat-Wearing Teen Just Got a Settlement From CNN. Media: Learn Your Lesson.

    MAGA Hat-Wearing Teen Just Got a Settlement From CNN. Media: Learn Your Lesson.1

    While the media often portray themselves as noble guardians of the truth who keep a close watch on those in power, the reality is quite the opposite: It is they who are in power and often swoop down to crush the powerless. This was the case in the frenzy surrounding Nick Sandmann, a teenage student

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  • Is Parental Burnout Something We Must Live With?

    Is Parental Burnout Something We Must Live With?5

    “Kid-free and career-focused.” If I could slap a motto on today’s trendy women, this would be my choice. It’s a sad indictment of our culture, but an explainable one, especially since parenting is exponentially harder than it once was. At least, that’s the conclusion reached by Kate Thayer in an article entitled “’Parental burnout’ is a

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  • ‘We’ Should Not Regulate Homeschooling

    ‘We’ Should Not Regulate Homeschooling0

    The desire to control other people’s ideas and behaviors, particularly when they challenge widely-held beliefs and customs, is one of human nature’s most nefarious tendencies. Socrates was sentenced to death for stepping out of line; Galileo almost was. But such extreme examples are outnumbered by the many more common, pernicious acts of trying to control

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  • America Needs the ‘Rough-and-Ready Democracy of Boy Life’

    America Needs the ‘Rough-and-Ready Democracy of Boy Life’0

    I often file things that I read in my growing collection of 100-year-old magazines – in bound volumes, six months apiece, 1,000 large pages in small font – under the category, “Different World.” Such is an article from The Century Magazine, January 1900, called “Fellow-Feeling as a Political Factor.” Its author knew a lot about political warfare, having long fought the

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