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  • America Finally Admits Recycling Doesn’t Work

    America Finally Admits Recycling Doesn’t Work0

    A couple of years ago, after sending my five-year-old daughter off to school, she came home reciting the same cheerful environmental mantra I was taught in elementary school. “Reduce, reuse, recycle,” she beamed, proud to show off a bit of rote learning. The moral virtue of recycling is rarely questioned in the United States. It

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  • Five Simple Dating Tips Today’s Young People Have Forgotten

    Five Simple Dating Tips Today’s Young People Have Forgotten0

    Professor Kerry Cronin and her famous dating class at Boston College are back in the news. This time it is Elizabeth Bernstein of The Wall Street Journal who unpacks Dr. Cronin’s class, the young Generation Z students who take it, and the reasons why such a course has become oddly necessary. Interestingly, Cronin’s class isn’t

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  • The Ignored Factor in New Zealand’s Mass Shooting

    The Ignored Factor in New Zealand’s Mass Shooting0

    What turned Brenton Tarrant, the 28-year-old Australian who murdered 50 people at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, last week into a mass killer? We’ll never know for sure. The media has been full of speculation. The suspects include extreme right-wing ideologies, racism, toxic masculinity, resentment of immigrants, first person shooter video games, the internet,

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  • Marvel’s Mentorship Crisis

    Marvel’s Mentorship Crisis0

    Are you growing weary of superhero films? Many viewers are, but others still fill the theaters, especially if the film presents the opportunity to enjoy another cameo of the now deceased father of the Marvel Universe, Stan Lee. I’m in this latter camp. I find it hard to resist the appeal of a good fight-scene,

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  • Professor Explains How Hiring Really Works at Universities

    Professor Explains How Hiring Really Works at Universities0

    Growing up, I was taught that fairness and justice required giving people their due. This meant that achievement and merit were the universal criteria for reward. Particular criteria such as gender, race, sexuality, and ethnicity should not matter, for to exclude people on these grounds would be bigotry. How times have changed! Now our official

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  • Politicizing Pediatrics: How the AAP’s Transgender Guidelines Undermine Trust in Medical Authority

    Politicizing Pediatrics: How the AAP’s Transgender Guidelines Undermine Trust in Medical Authority1

    What should you do if your five-year-old son tells you that he is a girl? The proportion of children and young adults who say that they are transgender is rising at an extraordinary rate, not only in the United States but in other countries as well. In 2009–2010, only forty girls in the United Kingdom requested reassignment

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