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At Harvard, Calls for Genocide Depend on Context1
Calling for a genocide against Jews is permissible at Harvard University, so long as such speech is not “targeted at an individual” and does not cross “into conduct,” according to Harvard President Claudine Gay. Gay delivered her jaw-dropping pronouncement under oath on Capitol Hill Wednesday before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. She did
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Why Ordinary People Enable Totalitarians4
Cicero said history “casts light on reality and is a guide to life.” The wisdom gained by understanding the past helps prevent the same errors from being repeated. Sebastian Haffner pursued answers to the questions of how the Nazis rose to power in Germany and why the German people did not stop them. In 1939, he wrote
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Creche, Credo, Courthouse: Reminders of Western Civilization at Christmas0
- Culture, Western Civilization
- December 11, 2023
The creche has gone on display at the Warren County Courthouse in Front Royal, Virginia. There we see the figures we might expect—Mary, Joseph, the newborn in the manger, the Magi, and several animals. Beside the creche stands a plain white wooden cross about four feet high. The statues are a bit timeworn, and to
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Young People Aren’t Reading Classic Books. 3 Reasons Why That’s a Problem.4
- Culture, Education, Featured, Literature
- December 11, 2023
One thing I wish I would have done more when I was in grade school was read. Granted, I do not recall anyone around me with their nose in a book or suggesting the activity might be enjoyable. The simple fact was that I didn’t know what I didn’t know. Even now, some twenty years
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The Heroism of Civilization1
- Culture, Western Civilization
- December 11, 2023
A long-held but somewhat flexible fantasy I have engaged in periodically since about middle school has me doing some truly unusual, heroic thing—perhaps pulling someone from a fire or heroically diving into the rapids to save some helpless person from drowning or even taking a bullet to protect a child. (I’m afraid of heights, so
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New Analysis Reveals 1 in 3 Women Suffer Post-Abortion Depression2
Women who go through with an abortion suffer no lasting mental health problems—according to conventional wisdom, at least. However, conventional wisdom is on notice following the publication of a bombshell meta-analysis that found 34.5 percent of women experience post-abortion depression globally. Released in October in the UK-based scientific journal BMC Psychiatry, the meta-analysis reviewed data
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Had You Known, Would You Have Taken the Jab?2
Would 92% of American adults have gotten a Covid shot had they known the “vaccines” only offered a 0.85% reduction in risk? Would young men have taken the jab if they had known it did not prevent transmission? Americans came to understand that the media campaigns supporting the shots were fraudulent. The touted benefits – preventing
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Friday Comic: Father-Son Bonding0
- Entertainment
- December 8, 2023
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Climate Hypocrites Everywhere4
“What I see all over the place is people who care about looking good while doing evil.” So said Elon Musk last week, in a colorful interview that almost broke the internet. Replying to questions from New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin about an advertiser boycott of pro-free speech platform X, the tech tycoon
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