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  • The Original ‘War on Christmas’ Was Waged by the Puritans

    The Original ‘War on Christmas’ Was Waged by the Puritans0

    Much ink is spilled every December over the “War on Christmas”—a perceived assault, led by secular folk, on the public acknowledgment of the holiday. But in fact, public-spirited “warfare” against Christmas goes back a long way in our history, and it was carried out by very religious people. The New England Puritans’ hostility to the

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  • Quebec’s Euthanasia Program is Accelerating Past Belgium’s

    Quebec’s Euthanasia Program is Accelerating Past Belgium’s0

    The law that legalized euthanasia in Quebec – under the euphemism “medical aid in dying” – came into effect exactly two years ago, on December 10, 2015. Many promises preceded its intrusion into our health system: that this would be an exceptional measure for exceptional cases, that there would be safeguards to prevent abuse, and

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  • Net Neutrality Isn’t Neutral At All

    Net Neutrality Isn’t Neutral At All0

    Net neutrality has been getting so many “hot takes” lately, it almost makes you wish someone would be non-neutral about this content and block it. These have come during the run-up to today’s Federal Communications Commission vote, which will likely reverse the Commission’s June 2015 reclassification of internet service providers as Title II (of the

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  • Cheating Linked to Unfaithful Parents, Study Finds

    Cheating Linked to Unfaithful Parents, Study Finds0

    Marital fidelity doesn’t come easily. When the cheating website Ashley Madison was hacked in 2015, it was revealed that the company had some 37 million users. The same year, in a YouGov survey, one in five Americans admitted to being unfaithful.   If these numbers don’t persuade you, consider the words J.R.R. Tolkien wrote to

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  • 3 Reasons Millennials Should Consider Ditching Karl Marx for Ayn Rand

    3 Reasons Millennials Should Consider Ditching Karl Marx for Ayn Rand0

    Dear avocado-toast-eating brethren, We need to drop Karl Marx like we dropped cable TV. We’re a generation that’s sick of wars (and threats of wars), mass shootings, and media sensationalism. As the ambassadors of the sharing economy and investors in cryptocurrency, we hold innovation and entrepreneurship in high esteem. Karl Marx is not who we

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  • What the Founders Understood About Religious Freedom That We Must Recover

    What the Founders Understood About Religious Freedom That We Must Recover0

    Friday, Dec. 15, marks the anniversary of the day our young nation ratified the Bill of Rights in 1791. Given the national discussion in recent days over whether the government may compel speech from an ordinary baker, now is an especially good time to consider the very first words of our charter document: “Congress shall

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  • Was John Wayne’s Masculine Image a Lie?

    Was John Wayne’s Masculine Image a Lie?0

    There is perhaps no manlier icon in Hollywood history than John Wayne. More than 40 years after his last film, he remains the cinematic apotheosis of the rugged, principled, red-blooded, tough-as-nails, frontier-conquering, patriotic American male. Not even Steve McQueen or Clint Eastwood can measure up to The Duke. But was Wayne’s masculine image a sham,

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  • The Best Way to Get Boys Reading

    The Best Way to Get Boys Reading0

    While at a gathering of friends several months ago, I stopped to chat for a few minutes with a twelve-year-old boy whom I’ll call Davy. Although the youngest in a family of all girls, I knew Davy was all boy. He liked guns and animals and all manner of typical boy subjects. Because of this,

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  • Rethinking the Burning Question of Cremation

    Rethinking the Burning Question of Cremation0

    It has been pointed out that death is now the taboo which sex once was. While having become numb to the latter, to the former we have become utterly prudish. The increasingly widespread practice of cremating the dead is good evidence in favour of this thesis. Our acceptance of cremation reveals that we no longer

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