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Feminist Explains Why She Left the Social Justice ‘Cult’0
- Culture
- May 19, 2017
Earlier this week, one of our readers shared with me a Medium story written by Keri Smith, titled “On Leaving the SJW Cult and Finding Myself.” A feminist and co-founder of Whitesmith Entertainment Inc., a talent management company, Smith explains her decision to abandon the Social Justice movement. It’s one of the more honest and
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Birth Rates are at Historic Lows and Here’s a Major Reason 0
- Culture
- May 19, 2017
For 100 years, the US government has tracked the birth rate. It is now at historic lows. There are many reasons, but one has to do with the dramatic change in the way society regards the economic value of kids. To illustrate the point, let’s reflect on the continuing popularity of Anne of Green Gables,
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Behind Closed Doors: What the Piltdown Man Hoax from 1912 can Teach Science Today 0
- History
- May 19, 2017
In 1912, Charles Dawson, an amateur archaeologist in England, claimed he’d made one of the most important fossil discoveries ever. Ultimately, however, his “Piltdown Man” proved to be a hoax. By cleverly pairing a human skull with an orangutan’s jaw – stained to match and give the appearance of age – a mysterious forger duped
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Yale Dean’s Nasty Yelp Reviews Expose Underbelly of Ivy League Elitism 0
- Culture
- May 18, 2017
Via the Washington Post: “As the dean of Yale University’s Pierson College, June Chu is responsible for advising about 500 students and fostering ‘a familiar, comfortable living environment’ in keeping with the university’s residential college system. Chu’s biography states she has a PhD in social psychology and touts a long career in which she has
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Why More Parents Need to Say ‘No’ to Their Children 0
- Culture
- May 18, 2017
When I was around 5 years old, a neighbor friend of mine had a huge, Victorian dollhouse. She never seemed all that interested in it, but I thought it was beautiful. So much so, that in the years following, I would often look longingly at similar dollhouse kits at the local craft store. Alas, the
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Teacher Licensure Laws Are Keeping Some of America’s Top Educators Out of Schools 0
- Education
- May 18, 2017
My homeschooled children take weekly math classes with a gifted teacher who has been teaching math to kids for more than 30 years from her cozy city home. After receiving undergraduate and graduate degrees in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), she decided that offering math tutoring and enrichment classes would enable her
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Let’s Hit Left-Wing Colleges Where It Hurts. In the Pocketbook.0
- Economics
- May 18, 2017
Parents, taxpayers, and donors have little idea of the levels of lunacy, evil, and lawlessness that have become features of many of today’s institutions of higher learning. Parents, taxpayers, and donors who ignore or are too lazy to find out what goes on in the name of higher education are nearly as complicit as the
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Female Applicant Rejects Ivy League School After Receiving Gender Neutral Acceptance Letter 0
- Culture
- May 18, 2017
This story has made the rounds in some major media and much social media. Which means it still stands out in this tense cultural climate with gender ideology pervading institutions, politics and media. And the topic of many of Pope Francis’ addresses. This time, it was Brown University, “one of the country’s most selective undergraduate colleges” according to this Wall
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Bill Nye’s Doomsday Predictions on Overpopulation Get Lambasted 0
- Culture
- May 18, 2017
Bill Nye has been in the news a lot lately, mostly as the result of the hyperbolic predictions he is prone to making, many of which are backed up with very little science. Whether it’s on gender identity, global warming, or philosophy, Nye can often be found serving up “a gold mine of fallacies, half-truths,
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Feminist Explains Why She Left the Social Justice ‘Cult’0