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Freedom: It’s Not About What You Want1
- Philosophy, Featured
- July 15, 2024
Is a king free if he can’t control his own passions? This question has puzzled philosophers for thousands of years. In an age when most people in the West have standards of living markedly higher than the kings of ancient times, it’s worth returning to this puzzle to try to get to the heart of
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Thanks to State Control, Doctors Have Become Gods 1
- Economics, Health, MomThink, Science
- July 15, 2024
My wife often poses the joke “Do you know the difference between doctors and God?” with the punchline being “God doesn’t think he’s a doctor.” The atrocious behavior of my neurosurgeon made me wonder: How does anyone get away with acting like this? In part one of my deep brain stimulation to fix the tremors in my hands, two holes are
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The Simple Joys of Keeping a Cow 9
- Culture, Featured, MomThink
- July 12, 2024
“Three acres and a cow” became a slogan for those who promoted small landholdings in 1880s England. It was thought to represent an ideal setup for the average family. As it happens, I’ve somehow ended up with exactly that: three acres and a cow—specifically, a Jersey-Fleckvie mix gifted to us by my wife’s dairy-farming family.
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As an Asian American, I Say DEI Must Go 4
- Culture, Education
- July 12, 2024
As someone who was involuntarily used as a poster child for Asian American and Pacific Islander month by my university, yet listened to some classmates rant that Asian Americans “would be nowhere without black people,” take it from me: Diversity, equity, and inclusion offices make racism worse, not better. Nobody should wonder whether circling their
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Friday Comic: Crisis 0
- Entertainment
- July 12, 2024
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Has the Media Been Covering Up President Biden’s Cognitive Decline?0
- Culture, Featured, Politics
- July 11, 2024
For the last 17 months of his two-term presidency, following a severe stroke, President Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) was barely functional. Behind the scenes, Wilson’s wife Edith stepped in to effectively serve as de facto commander-in-chief. She even earned herself the title “Secret President” and “first woman to run the government,” according to her official White
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