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  • No, People Aren’t Fine Just the Way They Are

    No, People Aren’t Fine Just the Way They Are0

    I remember being amused in my college philosophy classes that ancient philosophers like Plato considered the sphere the shape of perfection. I had spent a lot of time (and still do today) trying not to be spherical.   Throughout years of struggling with my weight I have noticed something perverse happening in myself. Just when

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  • Depose the Deep State or a Wall Is Meaningless

    Depose the Deep State or a Wall Is Meaningless1

    Last week in the Russian collusion saga, we learned that the FBI opened an investigation into the president because it disagreed with him on a matter of foreign policy. Yes, the agency first formed to catch people who crossed state lines with white women to have sex—and that now keeps secret files on UFOs—surmised in

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  • Covington: Stay Strong, Boys!

    Covington: Stay Strong, Boys!0

    Boys, in you I see my own teenage sons. Shoulder to shoulder they will stand with you and march into the culture war that you are unfortunately inheriting.   You have been through a lot already:   1) Yesterday was supposed to be a day of celebration for my middle brother Alex, who got married last

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  • Why Politics Divides People

    Why Politics Divides People0

    Why is politics so negative compared to marketing — its analog in the private sector — even though virtually every candidate echoes the desire to “just get along”? The explanation revolves around two important ways political competition differs from market competition: higher payoffs to negative attacks, and rationally ignorant “customers.” Selling your product in the private

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  • Why Liberal Chesterton Shunned the Progressive Label

    Why Liberal Chesterton Shunned the Progressive Label0

    We are all bundles of contradictions to some extent. Some bundles are bigger than others. And some contradictions are more contradictory than others. Until his mid-thirties, self-described reactionary G. K. Chesterton generally supported the Liberal party of England. Does that make him a bundle of contradictions? And if so, how big and how contradictory? Let’s

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  • Why I Don’t Apologize for Letting My Children Play Freely

    Why I Don’t Apologize for Letting My Children Play Freely0

    At a park near my house on a hot summer day, my five-year-old and two-year-old discover the water fountain. They make a game of splashing water out and stomping in the puddle with their bare feet. Other young children try to join in, but parent after parent says “no” and takes them away, sometimes in

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  • Public Enemy Number One

    Public Enemy Number One0

    Every year, on or near the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, hundreds of thousands of Americans go to Washington, D. C., to join the March for Life and protest that infamous decision. The March for Life is peaceful and orderly, and every year the major media outlets contrive to pretend it doesn’t exist.  Until this year. The same media outlets

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  • Is Tucker Right?

    Is Tucker Right?0

    Recently, Tucker Carlson, host of Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Show, opined that the free market isn’t always good for families. Naturally, all hell broke loose from many corners of the conservative and libertarian movements.   As almost anyone who works within those movements knows, the free market is not to be questioned. But should it

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  • Why I’m a ‘Misogynist’

    Why I’m a ‘Misogynist’0

    I’ve received any number of insults in the years since I began writing publicly. Lest you feel sorry for me, let me state up front that insults are a fact of life that any writer must learn to roll with, particularly if one writes for an online audience. But I must admit that there is

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