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Why Free Play is Disappearing in our Culture 0
- Culture
- August 1, 2017
Mammals are innately playful. Our large brains and complex social structures require that we learn vast amounts of information in childhood to help us thrive in adulthood. How do mammal children learn all of this? They play. But it’s not just any play. According to researchers, the most valuable play for normal human development is
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This Debate is About Gender Dysphoria, Not Transgender Military Service 1
- Culture
- August 1, 2017
As a transgender military veteran, an Army retiree and the first person in the United States to have their sex legally declared as non-binary, I have a vested interest in the outcome of the transgender military service ban. In the days when transgender military service was banned, I spent 18 years of torment fearing that
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Harvard Prof: Why You Shouldn’t Try to Be Your Child’s ‘Friend’0
- Culture
- August 1, 2017
In recent years, it has become quite popular for parents to treat their children as near equals. Near equals, as in the children call the shots and the parents cater to their beck and call. The reason for this is that many parents see their children as their companions and friends. Denying children continual service
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Passing Out Copies of Constitution Could Get You in Trouble at This College 0
- Education
- August 1, 2017
A college policy that led to the arrests of a student and two supporters of a conservative group for passing out copies of the Constitution on a Michigan campus is getting its day in court. A lawyer with the First Amendment legal aid group Alliance Defending Freedom was set to argue in court Tuesday for
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Women’s March Organizers’ Hate Exposed by the New York Times 0
- Culture
- August 1, 2017
Nearly a half-million people turned out at the Women’s March in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 21, 2017 to “send a bold message” to the incoming presidential administration. It probably never occurred to them that they might be marching for something worse than that which they were marching against. New York Times editor Bari Weiss, in
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Are Race, Class, and Gender Tainting Our View of History?0
- Culture
- August 1, 2017
A popular trend in recent months has been the removal of the names and monuments of those who supported slavery in America’s past. Such removal is undoubtedly driven by tense race relations, with some wanting to soothe their “white guilt” over past wrongs, and others seeking justice for the ancestors who were on the receiving
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