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The 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season Has Not Been Historically Unusual 0
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- November 6, 2017
The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season got an early start with Arlene in April, but the most powerful storms didn’t start to hit until the last week of August, when Hurricane Harvey flooded Texas and Louisiana. Harvey was the first hurricane to make landfall in Texas since Ike in 2008, and the first Category 4 hurricane
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Sexual Harassment is Tax-Deductible 0
- November 6, 2017
Many of the recent stories about sexual abuse claims against disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly and other powerful actors, journalists and executives mention settlements either they or their employers made to silence women who accused them of misconduct. These settlements often require alleged victims to sign a nondisclosure agreement
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Psychologist Dares to Say That ‘Mothers Are Biologically Necessary for Babies’0
- November 6, 2017
The chief characteristic of postmodern secular liberalism is its tendency to openly deny reality. The most recent occasion of opposing the obvious is Psychologist Erica Komisar, whose new book, Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters, has come close to causing fainting spells among the Cultural Authorities. What did Komisar claim
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Not Every Tragedy Has a Political Solution 0
- November 6, 2017
It only took a few hours after the news of the Texas massacre for the New York Times to start its gun-control incantations again. “Republicans leaders in Congress do nothing,” the paper writes. “Or, really, so far they’ve done the same thing they have always done: offered thoughts and prayers.” But here is a truth.
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Millennials in America Have a Troubling View of Communism and Socialism 0
- November 6, 2017
Last year the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation released their inaugural annual report on U.S. attitudes towards communism and socialism. The results were dispiriting. “We discovered a rampant amnesia about the crimes of communist regimes,” says Marion Smith, “and a growing inclination among younger Americans toward favorable views of communism and socialism.” Their latest survey
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5 Strategies for Using Time More Effectively 0
- November 6, 2017
Cal Newport is the author of two of the most influential non-fiction books of the past decade, So Good They Can’t Ignore You and Deep Work. Recently, he recommended the delightful 1910 book How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by the Englishman Arnold Bennett. While Newport’s work focuses on how to improve our
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Trump’s Rhetoric—the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly—Won’t Determine His Presidency 0
- November 3, 2017
‘Tis well said again; and it is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds. – King Henry in William Shakespeare’s King Henry VIII As someone who has spent virtually his whole life in the labor of words, spoken and written, prose and poetry and political commentary,
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There Is No Such Thing as Equality, and Thank Goodness 0
- November 3, 2017
Typically, Hayek’s chapter titles leave nothing to the imagination. But as I encountered the “Who, Whom” title of chapter eight in The Road to Serfdom, I had to do a doubletake. Having the modern luxury of Google at my fingertips, I soon learned that Hayek’s title was actually a Bolshevist slogan made popular by Lenin
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The Missing Ingredients in Modern Education 0
- November 3, 2017
While working at a local Catholic High School I couldn’t help observing how the whole enterprise too often focussed on achievement rather than accomplishment. There was a constant race for “good grades” which at worst functioned like votes in a popularity contest. “Sally didn’t get an ‘A’ so you don’t like her!” Parents were not
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The 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season Has Not Been Historically Unusual 0