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  • Internet Hate-Speech Rules Harm Mainstream, Normal Speakers

    Internet Hate-Speech Rules Harm Mainstream, Normal Speakers0

    • May 15, 2019

    Democrats in Congress have been pressuring social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google to crack down on hate speech. This may sound harmless, but it isn’t. “Hate speech” is a misleading phrase, and it’s no longer just about hate. Even things like expert medical opinions about transsexualism and gender identity have been labeled as

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  • Two Ways of Dying

    Two Ways of Dying0

    Editor’s note: The world recently lost philosopher and humanitarian Jean Vanier. Among Vanier’s many accomplishments is the founding of L’Arche, an organization and community which fostered the dignity and personhood of disabled individuals through personal relationships with “non-disabled peers.” One of the individuals involved in L’Arche was Jim Skerl, the man featured in the piece

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  • When Americans Go to the Polls, They Look to the Past — Not the Future

    When Americans Go to the Polls, They Look to the Past — Not the Future0

    There’s one question that almost every American voter asks him- or herself when casting their vote for president. Has the incumbent’s – or the incumbent party’s – past performance in office been sufficient to merit another term? Unlike voters in many other industrialized countries, Americans tend to vote from this “retrospective” perspective. Studies show that

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  • The Cost of Female Empowerment

    The Cost of Female Empowerment0

    The 2018 election achieved the height of female empowerment as women of all backgrounds gained seats in the nation’s legislatures. Young mothers made up a sizeable chunk of this group. In the U.S. Congress, the number of young moms “nearly doubled” with the influx of the new recruits. But Congress isn’t the only governing body

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  • ‘Trans’ Four-Year-Old: Sacrifice of the Innocent?

    ‘Trans’ Four-Year-Old: Sacrifice of the Innocent?0

    The High Court of the United Kingdom has decreed that social services cannot remove a four-year-old boy who identifies as a girl from a couple who have let “him” transition after sending the child to school in a girl’s uniform. The unnamed council had argued that the anonymous couple had “acted in a precipitate manner in relation

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  • Daenerys Targaryen: A Cautionary Tale for Feminists

    Daenerys Targaryen: A Cautionary Tale for Feminists1

    This article contains spoilers for Game of Thrones Season Eight. Hands up if you’ve ever encountered some variant of the phrase “Yass, Queen! Slay!” “Slaying,” a term usually applied to bold, powerful, unapologetically ambitious feminist icons like Beyoncé and Rihanna, describes the activities of an independent woman who takes what she wants in life no

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