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  • Mark Knight is Our Best Tabloid Cartoonist. Is His Serena Williams Drawing Racist?

    Mark Knight is Our Best Tabloid Cartoonist. Is His Serena Williams Drawing Racist?0

    Is the Mark Knight cartoon of Serena Williams racist? It depends on where you sit. Let me start with three opinions: I have long thought Mark Knight the best and most intelligent tabloid cartoonist in Australia. I find it inconceivable that he deliberately sat down to draw a racist cartoon and accept his explanation of

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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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  • 3 Reasons Why We Should Get Rid of Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings

    3 Reasons Why We Should Get Rid of Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings0

    I think it’s time to seriously consider getting rid of these hearings for Supreme Court nominees. The Constitution doesn’t require a hearing. All it says is that the Senate must give advice and consent. You can do that with a simple up-or-down vote. And let’s be real: Do we really think one senator’s vote is

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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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