Blog 3 Columns

The Fertility Industry Is a Science Fiction Nightmare 0
- Culture
- January 9, 2020
The fertility industry has become a multi-billion dollar enterprise, buying genetic material and selling the promise of children to same-sex couples, single parents, and heterosexual couples struggling with infertility. Both sperm and egg agencies seek donors with “desirable” traits. Male donors for example, must be at least 5’8” tall, and educational background, athletic ability, and hair
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Putting a Blowtorch to ‘Toxic Masculinity’0
- Culture
- January 9, 2020
With Australia’s catastrophic bushfires making headlines around the world, newspapers featured a photo of an iconic kangaroo illuminated by an apocalyptic scene of a burning house. But worse than the hundreds of houses lost or the millions of hectares of land burnt are the fatalities. So far at least 19 people have died, with dozens
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MAGA Hat-Wearing Teen Just Got a Settlement From CNN. Media: Learn Your Lesson.1
- Politics
- January 9, 2020
While the media often portray themselves as noble guardians of the truth who keep a close watch on those in power, the reality is quite the opposite: It is they who are in power and often swoop down to crush the powerless. This was the case in the frenzy surrounding Nick Sandmann, a teenage student
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How This Teen Entrepreneur Created a Million-Dollar Candy Empire 1
- Economics
- January 9, 2020
Alina Morse is a typical 14-year-old girl in a lot of ways. She goes to high school, likes to dance, and lives with her parents. Did we mention she also runs her own international candy empire? Oh. Well, she does. The story begins with a trip to the bank when Morse was seven. She asked
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Cracks in the Concrete: Is PC Culture in Danger of Extinction?0
- Culture
- January 9, 2020
Have we finally hit bottom? In Alcoholics Anonymous, “hitting bottom” means you wake up one morning in yet another drunken stupor, can’t remember anything you said or did the previous evening, realize you either need to change your life or die, and get yourself to a treatment center or an AA meeting. Hitting bottom means
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Is Parental Burnout Something We Must Live With?5
- Culture
- January 8, 2020
“Kid-free and career-focused.” If I could slap a motto on today’s trendy women, this would be my choice. It’s a sad indictment of our culture, but an explainable one, especially since parenting is exponentially harder than it once was. At least, that’s the conclusion reached by Kate Thayer in an article entitled “’Parental burnout’ is a
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Anti-Christian Blasphemy Isn’t Edgy or Brave 0
- Culture
- January 8, 2020
In late December, an obscure Brazilian far-right group firebombed the Rio de Janeiro office of the production company behind a comedic Netflix “Christmas special” that portrayed Jesus as gay. A security guard quickly extinguished the blaze, and no one was hurt. Porta dos Fundos, the comedy group behind the film, immediately began casting themselves as
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America Needs the ‘Rough-and-Ready Democracy of Boy Life’0
- Culture
- January 8, 2020
I often file things that I read in my growing collection of 100-year-old magazines – in bound volumes, six months apiece, 1,000 large pages in small font – under the category, “Different World.” Such is an article from The Century Magazine, January 1900, called “Fellow-Feeling as a Political Factor.” Its author knew a lot about political warfare, having long fought the
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‘We’ Should Not Regulate Homeschooling 0
- Education
- January 8, 2020
The desire to control other people’s ideas and behaviors, particularly when they challenge widely-held beliefs and customs, is one of human nature’s most nefarious tendencies. Socrates was sentenced to death for stepping out of line; Galileo almost was. But such extreme examples are outnumbered by the many more common, pernicious acts of trying to control
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The Fertility Industry Is a Science Fiction Nightmare 0