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  • Supreme Court Upholds Trump Transgender Military Policy—for Now

    Supreme Court Upholds Trump Transgender Military Policy—for Now0

    The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration in a limited ruling Tuesday on the issue of transgender people serving in the military. The narrow issue the high court decided on in the broader case of Trump v. Karnoski was whether to uphold a lower court’s injunction preventing the military from implementing the Defense Department’s

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  • No, People Aren’t Fine Just the Way They Are

    No, People Aren’t Fine Just the Way They Are0

    I remember being amused in my college philosophy classes that ancient philosophers like Plato considered the sphere the shape of perfection. I had spent a lot of time (and still do today) trying not to be spherical.   Throughout years of struggling with my weight I have noticed something perverse happening in myself. Just when

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  • Covington: Stay Strong, Boys!

    Covington: Stay Strong, Boys!0

    Boys, in you I see my own teenage sons. Shoulder to shoulder they will stand with you and march into the culture war that you are unfortunately inheriting.   You have been through a lot already:   1) Yesterday was supposed to be a day of celebration for my middle brother Alex, who got married last

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  • Why Liberal Chesterton Shunned the Progressive Label

    Why Liberal Chesterton Shunned the Progressive Label0

    We are all bundles of contradictions to some extent. Some bundles are bigger than others. And some contradictions are more contradictory than others. Until his mid-thirties, self-described reactionary G. K. Chesterton generally supported the Liberal party of England. Does that make him a bundle of contradictions? And if so, how big and how contradictory? Let’s

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  • Why I Don’t Apologize for Letting My Children Play Freely

    Why I Don’t Apologize for Letting My Children Play Freely0

    At a park near my house on a hot summer day, my five-year-old and two-year-old discover the water fountain. They make a game of splashing water out and stomping in the puddle with their bare feet. Other young children try to join in, but parent after parent says “no” and takes them away, sometimes in

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  • Why Politics Divides People

    Why Politics Divides People0

    Why is politics so negative compared to marketing — its analog in the private sector — even though virtually every candidate echoes the desire to “just get along”? The explanation revolves around two important ways political competition differs from market competition: higher payoffs to negative attacks, and rationally ignorant “customers.” Selling your product in the private

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