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  • Just Because We Can Create Genetically Modified Babies Doesn’t Mean We Should

    Just Because We Can Create Genetically Modified Babies Doesn’t Mean We Should0

    Two remarkable things took place last month in the world of biotechnology: A Chinese doctor claimed to have created two genetically modified human embryos who were successfully nurtured to birth, and the worldwide scientific community roundly rejected this experiment as a violation of ethics. In turn, the Chinese government condemned the doctor and called for an immediate investigation. At issue is

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  • Is Everything Old Bad?

    Is Everything Old Bad?0

    National Review recently ran a piece headlined “Everything Old is Bad, a Continuing Series at Vox.” In that piece, author Charles C. W. Cooke took the left-leaning website to task for claiming that the requirement that a President of the United States be 35 or older is nothing more than a “weird” historical hangover “handed

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  • Can Your Heart Grow Three Sizes? A Doctor’s Take on ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’

    Can Your Heart Grow Three Sizes? A Doctor’s Take on ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’0

    At the beginning of Dr. Seuss’ “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” the green, pot-bellied, feline-faced Grinch is a bitter, foul-tempered misanthrope whose heart is “two sizes too small.” In the middle of the story, he plots to steal all the Christmas gifts in Whoville and toss them from a cliff. At the end, having learned

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  • School Bans Designer Coats in Order to ‘Poverty Proof’ Campus

    School Bans Designer Coats in Order to ‘Poverty Proof’ Campus0

    Winter is coming, and colder temperatures mean that our coats and scarves have been pulled from their summer resting places and put to good use once more. But if you’re a parent in the United Kingdom, you might want to think twice before you send your kids off to school in their favorite winter coats.

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  • Does the Unfortunate 20th Century Foretell a Worse 21st?

    Does the Unfortunate 20th Century Foretell a Worse 21st?0

    On the centenary of his birth, we see that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was right, not once but twice. In appearance he was more akin to an Old Testament prophet—Jeremiah, say—than a Nobel Prize-winning Russian dissident writer, a man who had emerged from his long captivity in the Soviet Union only to find the supposedly superior West

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  • The Yellow Jackets Versus The European Empire

    The Yellow Jackets Versus The European Empire1

    So the “yellow jacket” protests are continuing in France, even though President Emmanuel Macron postponed the new fuel tax that ostensibly set them off. This tells us that the protests have motivations beyond just the fuel tax. Indeed, the populist protesters have now been admixed with antifa types and sundry lumpen proletarians, smashing windows, looting stores, spray-painting communist graffiti, and wreaking further havoc

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