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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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  • San Francisco Creates First Transgender District

    San Francisco Creates First Transgender District0

    San Francisco created a special cultural district for transgender persons, marking the first legal transgender district created anywhere in the world. San Francisco’s Tenderloin district is now home to “Compton’s Transgender Cultural District,” The Daily Beast reported Tuesday. The Tenderloin is a triangular neighborhood located a few blocks from San Francisco’s City Hall. It is also San Francisco’s

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  • How School Districts Weaponize Child Protection Services Against Uncooperative Parents

    How School Districts Weaponize Child Protection Services Against Uncooperative Parents0

    Schooling is adept at rooting out individuality and enforcing compliance. In his book, Understanding Power, Noam Chomsky writes: “In fact, the whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don’t know how to be submissive, and so

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  • Former Atheist Explains How Rationality, Not Emotion, Encourages Religious Belief

    Former Atheist Explains How Rationality, Not Emotion, Encourages Religious Belief0

    I recently ran across an interview with author Stephen Asma in The Irish Times. Although an atheist, Asma is a rather unique atheist because he believes religion is necessary, a fact evidenced in his recent book Why We Need Religion. According to Asma, a philosophy professor, religion does not make sense rationally, but it makes

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  • A Perfect Solution to the Statue-Toppling Problem

    A Perfect Solution to the Statue-Toppling Problem0

    Schools ought to teach history, not protest it.   A number of teachers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill have pledged to withhold more than 2,000 grades in protest over the university’s plans to house “Silent Sam” in a separate on-campus building. Silent Sam is a statue of a Confederate soldier that stood in

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