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The Reason Evangelicals Are Okay Voting For Roy Moore 0
- Politics
- December 12, 2017
Roy Moore allegedly stalking girls, Donald Trump’s mic’d misogyny, family values Congressman Wesley Goodman’s alleged sexual harassment of young Republican men and the Bill O’Reilly and Roger Ailes resignations at Fox News – all of these point to a would-be crisis. Some evangelicals have rebelled. R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological
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Rest and Quiet Contemplation: We Need More 0
- Culture
- December 12, 2017
At meetings, conferences, receptions, and even during casual conversations I’m inevitably asked if I saw so-and-so on the stir-the-pot talk show last night or if I listened to talking-head-Bob this afternoon on his critique-everything radio show. Inevitably, my answer is, “No.” The same sorts of questions arise when it comes to the latest release of talking-head-Jane’s
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Harvard Students Explain 3 Ways Homeschooling Helped Them Succeed 0
- Culture
- December 12, 2017
If one was to name a leading institution of higher education in America, Harvard University would definitely be one of the first to come to mind. After all, anyone with the name Harvard on his resume is practically guaranteed an open door to all kinds of profitable careers. The trick, then, is to get into
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Hanukkah is About Jewish Survival 0
- Culture
- December 12, 2017
Beginning on the evening of Dec. 12, Jews will celebrate the eight-day festival of Hanukkah, perhaps the best-known and certainly the most visible Jewish holiday. While critics sometimes identify Christmas as promoting the prevalence in America today of what one might refer to as Hanukkah kitsch, this assessment misses the social and theological significance of
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Against the Maternal State 0
- Education
- December 12, 2017
In the late nineteenth century, many Americans took pride in living in a country that boasted so much freedom. In describing their society and polity, they often contrasted them with what they called paternalism, which they believed was the rule in certain European countries, such as Germany, where a proto-welfare state began to be developed
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Toxic Masculinity at Intellectual Takeout 0
- Culture
- December 11, 2017
Last week was one of those weeks when work and life are “t-boned” over and over and over again. At a certain point, you simply resign yourself to your fate, only asking, “What’s next?” It was late Thursday night and I had just finished with a pet crisis that resulted in the Foley clan down
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Should Women Take Their Husband’s Last Name?0
- Culture
- December 11, 2017
When it comes to gender norms in America, the times they are a changin’. One of the signs of this is the decline in the number of women changing their names after marriage. Recent surveys suggest that thirty percent of married American women either combine their names with their husbands’ names, or never change their
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I’m a Pediatrician. Here’s What I Did When a Little Boy Patient Said He Was a Girl.1
- Politics
- December 11, 2017
“Congratulations, it’s a boy!” Or, “Congratulations, it’s a girl!” As a pediatrician for nearly 20 years, that’s how many of my patient relationships began. Our bodies declare our sex. Biological sex is not assigned. Sex is determined at conception by our DNA and is stamped into every cell of our bodies. Human sexuality is binary.
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How to Live Like a Bitcoin Millionaire 0
- December 11, 2017
The opportunity is to live every dream you have ever had. Now. The problem is that for every dream you realize, you have to relinquish some of your property. And every bit of that property is hard to come by, extraordinarily lucrative, and the single most in-demand thing on the planet earth. So, yes, you
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The Reason Evangelicals Are Okay Voting For Roy Moore 0