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Steve Bannon: Not a Fan of Limited Government 0
- Economics
- March 28, 2017
Writing in The New York Times Magazine about last week’s stillborn RyanCare bill, Robert Draper recalls a conversation he had with White House strategist Stephen Bannon earlier this year. Bannon, lamenting the ability of both congressional Democrats and Republicans to get things done, contrasts the identity-obsessed progressives with the one-trick pony conservatives: What’s that Dostoyevsky line: Happy families
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Surgeons in Canada are Harvesting Organs from Euthanised Patients 0
- Culture
- March 28, 2017
Taking advantage of the country’s new law, Canadian transplant surgeons have harvested organs from dozens of euthanasia patients. According to the National Post, 26 people in Ontario who died by lethal injection have donated tissue or organs. This involved mostly corneas, skin, heart valves, bones and tendons. The National Post’s report only covered Ontario. Bioethicists,
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3 Ways to Spot an Ideologue 1
- Philosophy
- March 28, 2017
In 1960, Daniel Bell’s book The End of Ideology was published. In it, he declared what “sensible” people like himself already knew: Ideological commitments are mere barriers to social progress. Incremental improvements in technology, entrepreneurship and new methods of governance, not endless debates between capitalists and socialists, liberals and conservatives, fascists and communists, would mark
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How Colleges Drag Out Degree Programs Longer than Necessary 0
- Education
- March 28, 2017
In recent years, a growing number of colleges have been rolling out accelerated 3-year degree plans. New York University is one of the latest and most prestigious to do so. According to Inside Higher Ed, the move comes in an effort to trim costs and make college more affordable for students: “New York University unveiled
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Feminist Author: Women Need to Stop Playing the Victim 0
- Culture
- March 27, 2017
Ask most feminists who the foremost victim in society is and they will likely say women. Fay Weldon, British feminist and author of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil likely would have said the same at one point in life. Now, however, she suggests that women are clinging to victimhood they no longer have
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Fascism Has Left and Right Wing Roots 1
- History
- March 27, 2017
An analogy is haunting the United States – the analogy of fascism. It is virtually impossible (outside certain parts of the Right-wing itself) to try to understand the resurgent Right without hearing it described as – or compared with – 20th-century interwar fascism. Like fascism, the resurgent Right is irrational, close-minded, violent and racist. So
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