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Psychiatrist: Not Everything is a Mental Disease 0
- Science
- February 17, 2016
Some readers might recognize the name “Theodore Dalrymple.” It’s the pen name of the iconoclastic British psychiatrist Anthony Daniels, who in semi-retirement keeps on writing books. His twenty-third is Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality (2015). An interview he gave soon after the book’s publication sums up his thesis, which is rather unconventional even if,
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Top Ten Ways to Be a Man 1
- Culture
- February 15, 2016
In an age in which tweed jackets have been replaced by sweatshirts, pants have holes and shoes lack laces, and the “un-done” look is considered attractive, maybe we need to reconsider our codes of conduct, especially when it comes to the art of being a man. Thus, the question is begged: What makes a man?
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Antonin Scalia, RIP 0
- Politics
- February 15, 2016
Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative whom even the soi-disant socialist Bernie Sanders has called “brilliant” and “colorful,” died on Saturday in Arizona. Whether writing for the majority or in dissent, Scalia usually elicited strong reactions. It appears that is no different in death than in life. Thus, the Twitter storm among some on the Left
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Your Neanderthal DNA is Causing You Problems 0
- Science
- February 15, 2016
The Neanderthal DNA you didn’t know you have is likely causing you some problems. A new study by the University of Washington and Vanderbilt University has found that the small of amount of Neanderthal DNA that most people have is linked to a wide variety of less-than-enjoyable conditions, “including depression, nicotine addiction, heart attacks, corns
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The return of the housewife 0
- Culture
- February 15, 2016
American Housewife, Helen Ellis’ critically acclaimed, darkly comic, collection of short stories, is the latest addition to the conversation about domestic life. The book was born from Ellis’ anonymous Twitter account @WhatIDoAllDay – a question she and many other women who manage a home often get asked. “Helen Ellis Is Giving Housewives a Very Good
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Euthanasia for Depression: A Bad Idea?0
- Culture
- February 15, 2016
A few weeks ago I posted and asked questions about a significant rise in the reported number of cases of euthanasia in Belgium. This week, a new paper published in the peer-review journal JAMA Psychiatry reports the results of a study of some Dutch patients who, suffering primarily from mental illness rather than terminal physical illness,
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