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  • How C.S. Lewis Predicted the PC War on Literature

    How C.S. Lewis Predicted the PC War on Literature0

    What makes for a good book? There are many possible answers: beautiful prose, interesting characters, a well-crafted plot, and so on, all of which contribute to literature’s power to make us feel or experience things in new and different ways. For some, though, a good book is one that aligns perfectly with the reader’s political

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  • Can Highly Sensitive People Succeed in Parenting?

    Can Highly Sensitive People Succeed in Parenting?0

    Do you struggle with loud noises? Startle easily? Get immediately overwhelmed by certain environments or find it incredibly difficult to switch off? Chances are you have a High Sensitivity Personality (HSP), or, in scientific terms, you may have Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS). And if you’re an HSP parent, you probably jump out of your skin

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  • Who Had the Bright Idea of Transferring Men to Women’s Prisons?

    Who Had the Bright Idea of Transferring Men to Women’s Prisons?0

    The other day I was told by a rheumatologist working for the National Health Service that there was a note in my records recommending me for a PSA test (a marker for prostate disease) because of my age. A PSA test for a woman? What is going on in the NHS? Ah, but the note

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  • Three Ways We ‘Screwtape’ Our Families

    Three Ways We ‘Screwtape’ Our Families0

    The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis is quite possibly one of the scariest books I’ve ever read. Not that it’s at all “scary” in the typical sense of the word. In fact, although the collection of letters is written as though it were authored by a demon named Screwtape, it also happens to be sarcastic,

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  • Does Family Bonding Reduce ADHD?

    Does Family Bonding Reduce ADHD?0

    It’s hard to deny that cases of ADHD have exploded in recent years. This is particularly true for boys, whose ADHD diagnoses, as the chart below shows, increased from 11 percent to 15.1 percent between 2003 and 2015. It’s easy to look at this increase and blame any number of things. Smartphones. Video games. Lack

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  • ‘The Resistance’ to Trump Fails a Basic Test of Courage

    ‘The Resistance’ to Trump Fails a Basic Test of Courage0

    What were the editors of the New York Times smoking when they decided to publish an op-ed by an anonymous official in the Trump Administration? “I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations,” he wrote. He and his buddies are “the Resistance” – secret

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