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Professional Poker: A Last Refuge of the Gentleman 0
- Culture
- March 9, 2022
Feminists are waging war against men. And they are winning. Yet in this war, there are still a few voices who speak about how to be a gentleman in a hostile world. Chronicles writer Stephen Baskerville does just this in his excellent book, A Gentleman’s Guide to Manners, Sex, and Ruling the World. Being a
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U.S. Policy: Cheer Ukrainians On—and Keep Us Out!0
- Politics
- March 8, 2022
After Friday’s NATO summit refused to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said the allies’ failure to “close the skies” to Russian military aircraft gives “a green light for further bombing of Ukrainian cities.” “All the people who will die starting from this day will … die because of you,” said
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Boats Against the Current: Taking Hopeless Times and Making Them Otherwise 0
- Culture
- March 8, 2022
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his 1936 essay, “The Crack-Up.” Given that test, I’m afraid I would flunk hands-down. Here are some contradictory
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God Last, Chaos First 0
- Education
- March 7, 2022
“Ma’am, I need you to come pick up your daughter,” I say into the phone. “She has been suspended for continual and willful defiance.” “What did she do?” comes the reply. “Yesterday, she cussed out our dean when he asked her to go to class,” I answer, glossing past the many times she had skipped
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A Change in Sex Ed? Count Me In 1
- Culture
- March 4, 2022
As some readers may know, I’m an old guy, born during the middle of the Korean War. Which makes me a time machine. Listen to me, and I can whisk you back to the late 1960s, when in high school we took biology and health classes. In biology we probably
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Training Faithful Foot Soldiers in the War Against the Elite 0
- Culture
- March 3, 2022
A friend of mine recently bemoaned the fact that people only ever tell her how difficult parenting is. Since she is expecting her first child, such “friendly advice” isn’t the most encouraging thing to hear. Unfortunately, discouraging words about raising children aren’t all that out of the ordinary, a fact writer Lucy Huber addresses in
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