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Scottish NYU Student: U.S. Universities ‘Stifling’ and ‘Dangerously Insular’0
- Education
- August 24, 2017
In a recent article for The Spectator, New York University journalism major Madeleine Kearns wrote about her first year at a U.S. university. The experience she describes does not sound very positive. Kearns, who was born in Glasgow, Scotland describes an environment that would have looked like a parody of a university setting a generation
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Study Reveals How Parents May Help Children Weather the Culture Wars 0
- Culture
- August 24, 2017
When Donald Trump was first elected for president, the news media began to ask how parents could best raise their children under the shadow of his leadership. TIME suggested parents teach their daughters to resist sexism. Jezebel insisted that parents raise sons by “refusing to engage in reductive binaries.” And the Huffington Post suggested that
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Robert E. Lee Wasn’t Hitler 0
- Culture
- August 23, 2017
Many Americans are aware of the effort to remove Confederate monuments across America. Whether one believes the effort is a justified action or misguided iconoclasm, there is no question the debate has opened old wounds. There are valid reasons why one may not one wish to have in their city or university a monument honoring
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Should an Armed Nazi Horde Be Permitted to Invade Your Town?0
- Culture
- August 23, 2017
The American Civil Liberties Union has reversed itself to decide: now it’s gone too far. They will defend the right of speech, the right to associate, the right to protest and march. They will defend the rights of hate groups, hate speech, and the most egregious gatherings you can imagine. What they will no longer defend
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Want Teenage Boys to Read? Give Them Books About Heroes 0
- Culture
- August 23, 2017
Studies show that teenage boys lag behind teenage girls in reading. Even in adulthood, women are far more enthusiastic readers; two out of three adults who say they never read books are male. Debate rages about whether biology or culture is to blame, but the fact remains that girls simply seem to enjoy reading more—how
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My ‘Sex Change’ Was a Myth. Why Trying to Change One’s Sex Will Always Fail.0
- Culture
- August 23, 2017
Recently, during a radio show on which I appeared as a guest, a caller posed a question I frequently get asked: “Do the administration of cross-gender hormones and genital surgery change a boy into a girl or a girl into a boy?” The answer is simple: biologically, not at all. Underneath all the cosmetic procedures,
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