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What is “Toxic Masculinity”?1
- Culture
- February 8, 2019
The failure of current culture to define the term “toxic masculinity” (as mentioned in the recent Gillette ad) is a serious problem. Does it mean a subset of masculinity is toxic? Or, does it mean masculinity itself is toxic? If masculinity itself is toxic (as some people claim is the point of the recent American
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What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Doesn’t Understand about Socialism0
- Culture
- February 8, 2019
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) and H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) were near contemporaries, but they were not kindred souls. One was an Englishman; the other an American. One was a Catholic Christian; the other a lifelong agnostic. One dubbed himself a distributist (as opposed to a capitalist or a socialist), while the other was an unabashed
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The End of ‘Believe All Women’0
- Culture
- February 8, 2019
Feminists haven’t been this silent since the Bill Clinton years. Vanessa Tyson came forward Wednesday to accuse Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexually assaulting her during the Democratic National Convention in Boston in 2004, saying in a statement that “What began as consensual kissing quickly turned into a sexual assault.” Tyson, now a politics
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How Venezuelans Can Recover from the Sickness of Socialism0
- Economics
- February 8, 2019
And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works – French economist and statesman Frédéric Bastiat, 1850. Venezuela’s socialist
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Do We Need More Screen-Free Zones?0
- Culture
- February 8, 2019
It’s Friday afternoon, and I’m standing near the polar bear enclosure at the local zoo. A few feet away from me, a thousand-pound animal is playing with an exercise ball. It’s amusing. He looks like a massively oversized toddler trying to palm a basketball. The zoo is quiet today, so I’ve got the observation window
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Why Bad Arguments Are So Persuasive0
- Culture
- February 7, 2019
A few years ago, two of my younger siblings were helping in the kitchen when my little brother decided to take my little sister’s snack. When asked why he would do such a thing, he looked at my mom and explained, as though it should have been obvious, that he took her snack because she
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Homeschoolers: Guilty Until Proven Innocent?0
- Culture
- February 7, 2019
My eight-year-old daughter and I recently read about the Salem witch trials. She had heard about Salem from a friend who visited the nearby town during its popular Halloween festivities, and she was curious about the witches. We went to the library to get some books on the topic of how 20 innocent people were
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Has the IVF Industry Been Lying to Millennials?0
- Culture
- February 7, 2019
Recently the Sydney Morning Herald reported that a technique known as “endometrial scratching”, used in fertility clinics, has been found to be useless. A three-year study carried out in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, showed that the IVF add-on, costing up to $700 in Australia, did nothing to boost the chances of falling pregnant through in vitro fertilisation. Too
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Democrats Release Green New Deal. Here’s What’s in It.0
- February 7, 2019
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez released a resolution that outlines the “Green New Deal” that’s become a central part of the Democratic agenda. The Green New Deal resolution calls for “10-year national mobilizations” toward a series of goals aimed at fighting global warming, according to a copy of the bill obtained by NPR. A separate fact sheet
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