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There’s Nothing Fake About the Dangers of Transgender Medications1
- Culture
- October 2, 2019
A terrifying story about drugs for transgender children has been making the rounds in the past few days. Originating in LifeSiteNews, it claimed that Lupron, a puberty-blocking drug used in treating transgender children, has been associated with 6,000 deaths. It spread like wildfire across conservative sites. However, it was quickly debunked as “a viral fake news
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The Electoral College Will Never Make Everyone Happy0
- International
- October 2, 2019
With the presidential election looming, worried observers of politics have already asked whether the Electoral College will again deliver a victory to the candidate with less than a majority of the popular vote. This has happened in two of the last five presidential elections. Critics like Vox’s Ezra Klein contend that this phenomenon is not
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Our Divisive News Media Needs Clark Kent0
- Culture
- October 2, 2019
When I was a kid growing up in Boonville, North Carolina (population 600), my public library was the comic book and magazine section near the front of Weatherwax Pharmacy on Main Street. Because I occasionally spent the 12 cents to buy one of the comic books, Mr. Weatherwax tolerated my hours spent sitting on that
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How the War on Meat Threatens Your Health and Freedom0
- Culture
- October 2, 2019
Senator Kamala Harris from California is one of the Democratic authoritarians running for president. In his recent essay “Kamala Harris and the Cult of the Presidency,” Tyler Curtis documents alarming executive actions Harris promises to take if elected president. In September, at a CNN town hall on climate change, Harris was asked this question: “Would
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Father Loss and Narcissism: Is There a Connection?0
- Culture
- October 2, 2019
Sitting in the park recently, my contemplations were interrupted by a man wielding a large camera, three young ladies pacing behind him. Motioning to the bench on which I was sitting he asked, “Can we use this for our photo shoot?” “Oh, um, sure,” I said. Glancing over my shoulder as I left, I saw
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What We Get Wrong About Pursuing Equal Outcomes0
- Culture
- October 1, 2019
What happens when you suggest that someone’s failure to get something they believe they deserve is due to widespread – even systemic – maliciousness? Social malfunction. African American economist Thomas Sowell, in Discrimination and Disparities, puts it this way: Those who seem to be promising an end to existing group disparities, as a result of
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The Will to Power: Welcome to Our New Paradigm0
- Culture
- October 1, 2019
We are passing from the modern age to the postmodern age. If the modern age rested upon the idea of objective truths with reason as our guide, the postmodern age rests upon the rejection of the objective and the embracing of the personal, the belief that truth is relative to the individual. Nietzsche gave
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The Hazards of ‘Normalizing’ Impeachment0
- Culture
- October 1, 2019
I must confess I am torn on impeachment. Not the “whistleblower report” or the House Democrats’ looming inquiry into President Donald Trump, that is, but on the question of whether impeachment should become a routine form of White Housecleaning or remain, as impeached former President Bill Clinton often said of abortion, “safe, legal and rare.”
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Politics is Crowding Out Culture and Childhood0
- Culture
- October 1, 2019
Many years ago, when I was teaching at Providence College, I showed up for a meeting of the faculty senate. That was rare for me. I loathe campus politics. But a friend of mine had put forward a proposal for a program in Classics, and I attended to lend my support. It turned out that
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