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K-12 School Agrees to Gender Inclusion Policy With No Notice or ‘Opt Out’ for Parents 0
- Culture
- August 8, 2017
After facing a lawsuit over its treatment of a kindergartener who identifies as transgender, a nationally recognized public charter school in Minnesota has agreed to adopt a far-reaching inclusionary policy. In the settlement, the school promised to establish a gender inclusion policy that doesn’t allow parents to opt out “based on religious or conscience objections,”
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How Sensitivity Killed Common Sense 0
- Culture
- August 8, 2017
If you were to name one quality which has come to be highly sought after and demanded in today’s world, what would it be? For my money, I would say that sensitivity fits the bill. As such, a white person who chooses to wear hoop earrings or style his hair in dreadlocks is guilty of
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Google Engineer Fired for Questioning Diversity in Memo—But Four Scientists Say He Was Right 0
- Culture
- August 8, 2017
Google engineer James Damore had a Jerry Maguire moment. And he ended up exactly like Jerry Maguire. Damore was fired by Google this week after his 10-page memo, titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” ignited a storm of criticism. The memo, the text of which can be read here, suggested that biological differences could
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Christian Art Stinks Today. Why?3
- Culture
- August 8, 2017
I’ve long wondered why it is that modern Christians contribute so little art of merit to our culture. I’ll occasionally make this point to fellow Christians over cocktails when I feel naughty. Invariably, my thesis meets pushback. “What about Tolkien and Lewis,” they contend. “Oh, and Chesterton.” When it is pointed out they are citing
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Why Do Progressives Hate the West So Much?0
- Politics
- August 7, 2017
President Trump was right to defend the West, a civilization which goes back to the Homeric epic and the Hebrew prophets, and having been baptized by Christ, is “not the property of any particular race but the universal aspiration of humankind”… In an essay for The Atlantic earlier this month, Peter Beinart, an associate professor of journalism
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Who is Winning the Gender War: Boys or Girls?0
- Education
- August 7, 2017
Recent headlines have made much to-do over the gains – or setbacks – of transgender students. With this focus, it’s easy to lose sight of what’s happening with the two original genders: boys and girls. For many years, we’ve been told that it is females who are falling behind in the war between the sexes.
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The Secret to Getting Along With Others 0
- Culture
- August 7, 2017
I had already completed 16 years of schooling when I took a class to prepare for entrance exams to law school (I decided not to go). First order of business for nailing the exam: the study of logic. My mind was absolutely blown. I was stunned to discover that there are rules for thinking, proofs
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The Road to Serfdom: We’re Probably on It 0
- Culture
- August 7, 2017
On both sides of the political aisle, frustration with Washington, D.C., has been palpable and growing for many years. Several years ago, President Obama himself stated, “The American people overwhelmingly believe that this town doesn’t work well.” The more the frustration grows, the more the people seek someone strong enough to wrestle our government out of
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The Real Reason Women Bully Each Other at Work (And Everywhere Else)0
- Culture
- August 7, 2017
In a recent article written for The Atlantic, Olga Khazan asks, “Why do women bully each other at work?” In the article’s body, she details several studies and personal stories from women who have found their work environments to be quite hostile because the other women there behaved meanly toward them. One of the
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K-12 School Agrees to Gender Inclusion Policy With No Notice or ‘Opt Out’ for Parents 0