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A New Logical Fallacy Is Popping Up3
- September 21, 2016
By now, most of you are familiar with the ad hominem logical fallacy. Latin for “against the man,” it’s the practice of personally attacking one’s opponent rather than his or her argument. In this blog I’d like to introduce a brand new logical fallacy that I frequently see committed today. I have dubbed it the
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Why Charles M. Schulz Added a Black Character to the Peanuts Gang1
- Culture
- September 20, 2016
On April 15, 1968, Harriet Glickman, a schoolteacher and mother of three, wrote a short letter to cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated less than two weeks before. Much of the momentum of the Civil Right Movement seemed lost. Glickman explained to Schulz that she felt a need to
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Watch this 17-Year Old Kid Explain Why He Won’t Go to College0
- Culture
- September 20, 2016
You might still believe that college is a great investment for nearly everyone. You might still hold to the view that a great education benefits the student and the whole of society. You might even agree with the politicians who are figuring out how to drive more people into college. Even if all that is
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Telegraph: Down’s Syndrome People Could Soon Face “Extinction”0
- Culture
- September 20, 2016
This week, The Telegraph commented ona trend that’s been apparent for quite some time: about 90% of pregnancies involving a fetus diagnosed with Down’s Syndrome in Britain are aborted. The statistical picture in the U.S. is a bit more complicated, but even with all the academic qualifications, it’s clear that the majority are aborted. Some
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Scholar: Schools Are Creating ‘Learned Barbarians’0
- Culture
- September 20, 2016
There are two main competing views about human nature in Western civilization. The first and most ancient is the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian view. Mutatis mutandis, it holds that men and women are born with a proclivity toward ignorance, are subject to many harmful passions (e.g. anger, envy, etc.), and need much training and work to
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Is European Civilization Vanishing Before Our Eyes?0
- Culture
- September 20, 2016
European demographic decline has been a topic that has been canvassed a lot on this blog. Looking at our more recent posts this year, we have written about Italy’s demographic “apocalypse”, Hungary’s fight against depopulation, Europe’s dying villages, the migrant crisis, Romania’s longterm demographic decline, and Finland’s historically low birthrates. We even saw Lord Sack’s warning that we are seeing the fall of
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Doctor: Excusing Kids from Chores is “a Mistake”0
- Culture
- September 20, 2016
Ask many of today’s parents if they were required to do chores as a child and the answer will likely be yes – accompanied, of course, by a description of their least favorite job. But while 82 percent of today’s parents did chores as a child, only 28 percent of them expect the same out
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Amy Schumer: Unlikely but Persuasive Defender of Marriage0
- Culture
- September 20, 2016
Amy Schumer seems like an unlikely critic of the sexual revolution. But in her new memoir, The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo, the often ribald comedian writes of her parents’ marriages (three apiece) and divorces in a way that reads like fodder for a Dr. Laura book about family values. “I’ve had UTIs that lasted
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Why Does Our Society Still Despise Affairs?0
- September 19, 2016
Yesterday evening, we learned that those who hacked the Ashley Madison site revealed the stolen information online. For those who don’t know, AshleyMadison.com is a website that facilitates affairs. It proudly describes itself as “the most famous name in infidelity and married dating,” and encourages would-be users to “have an affair today on Ashley Madison.”
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