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  • The Cult-Like Transgender Recruitment Model

    The Cult-Like Transgender Recruitment Model5

    Oh, the insecurities of youth! “Will I be popular?” “Can I play basketball as well as the other boys?” “Will the others let me hang out with them?” “Will boys like me?” “Will girls like me?” “Am I as strong/smart/good-looking/funny as the cool kids?” Most kids and teens endure these doubts about themselves. It’s a

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  • The 7 Intellectual Virtues: Helpful Tools for Thinking Well

    The 7 Intellectual Virtues: Helpful Tools for Thinking Well4

    When we think of the words virtue or character, our minds usually go first to actionable morality. We think, for instance, of chivalry (say, a gentleman holding a door for a lady) or altruism (the willingness to give up personal pleasure to help someone else). Philip E. Dow makes a good case, though, for virtue

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  • Comrades in Arms: Friendship and Tough Times

    Comrades in Arms: Friendship and Tough Times1

    Feeling depressed by the state of the nation? Sucked under by the daily torrent of negative news? Powerless in the grip of forces greater than yourself? Join the crowd. In October 2022, the American Psychological Association (APA) released data showing that 70 percent of adults don’t believe their government cares about their well-being and that

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  • Informed Consent and the Pill

    Informed Consent and the Pill5

    Like many women, when I was given the birds and bees talk, I was told about hormonal birth control pills as a common method of contraception. Indeed, 14 percent of women take the pill. There’s plenty of controversy to be had around this drug. And to be clear, this is not an anti-contraception article; I

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  • Why the Attack on the Family Is Doomed

    Why the Attack on the Family Is Doomed0

    Writer, speaker, wife, and mother-of-five Kimberly Ells tells the story of the Hadjok family living under communist rule in Hungary before their escape over the Austrian border in The Invincible Family. By day, the two children, Vera and Johan, attended a compulsory state school, which indoctrinated them and all the other students in the tenets

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  • The “New Study Finds” Approach to Overregulation

    The “New Study Finds” Approach to Overregulation1

    “Now we’re cooking with gas!” This classic Americanism carries the sense of definite progress, things working according to plan, and being headed to success (perhaps after an uncertain start). It has the same rhetorical heft as “Full steam ahead.” It was popularized by radio stars Bob Hope and Jack Benny in the 1930s, and was

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