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Professional Poker: A Last Refuge of the Gentleman0
- 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 Otherwise0
- 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 First0
- 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 In1
- 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 Elite0
- 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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The CDC Changed Its COVID Risk Formula. The Results Are Stunning0
- Politics
- March 3, 2022
On Feb. 25, the CDC made its expected announcement that it was updating its framework to monitor and contain COVID-19. “We’re in a stronger place today as a nation with more tools to protect ourselves in our communities from COVID-19, like vaccination, boosters, broader access to testing, availability of high quality masks, accessibility to new
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Evidence Suggests COVID Vaccines May Not Save More Lives Than They Take0
- Science
- March 3, 2022
Medical journals and textbooks are clear that the only way to accurately determine the life-or-death impacts of medical treatments is by measuring “all-cause mortality” in “randomized controlled trials.” Clinical lingo aside, this is simply the number of deaths in studies where people are randomly assigned to receive or not receive a certain treatment. Though widely
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The World Wants to Be Deceived1
- Culture
- March 2, 2022
In October 2021, Facebook changed its brand name to Meta. “We believe the metaverse will be the successor to the mobile internet,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a speech announcing the change. “We’ll be able to feel present—like we’re right here with people no matter how far apart we actually are.” Never mind that this
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