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When Tech Elites Lose Their Religion 0
- Culture
- April 25, 2019
Remember the “digital divide”? That’s a media-friendly bit of alliteration, going back to the 1990s, used to describe the unequal distribution of digital access. That is, there were some areas where the Internet and related technologies were scarce — and those areas still exist today. Yet lately we’ve seen the emergence of a second kind of digital
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Facebook Fascism and the Slippery Slope to Tyranny 0
- Culture
- April 25, 2019
Following the recent attack on a mosque in New Zealand by a white supremacist terrorist, I was asked by a national TV network in the UK to appear on a live show to give my perspective as a former white supremacist. (I served two prison sentences for “inciting racial hatred” back in the 1980s.) I
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Vive La Différence: A Toast to Men and Women 0
- Culture
- April 25, 2019
In an online article, “Boys Will Be Boys Except When They Are Girls,” Dr. Brian Joondeph addresses the unfairness of transgender women competing in female sports events. In making his case, he offers some fascinating statistics. Here are some of them: Physical realities of strength and speed don’t come in 60 flavors. Instead, there are only
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‘8 Mile’ and the Power of Logos 0
- Culture
- April 25, 2019
“In the beginning was the Word.” So begins John’s Gospel. In the original Greek, “Word” is logos, a word meaning precise, reasoned speech that brings order out of chaos. Jordan Peterson calls it “the articulated truth.” English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge calls it “communicative intelligence.” According to Christianity, Jesus, who claimed not just to speak
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Old Kindergarten Requirements Suggest Today’s Classrooms Are Too Much, Too Soon 2
- Culture
- April 24, 2019
I received a rather frantic email from a friend when school started last fall. Panicking over the number of parents posting first day of preschool pictures, my friend wondered if she had made a mistake by not sending her four-year-old to school. “When did preschool become so popular?” she asked in dismay. She wasn’t imagining
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I’m a College Student. Here’s Why I Oppose Socialism.0
- Culture
- April 24, 2019
In the 2016 presidential primaries, 2.1 million people under age 30 voted for democratic socialist Bernie Sanders. But do young Americans really know what it means to live under socialism? Cambodia, like other countries in the past and present, offers clear evidence of the outcomes of socialist policies such as the Green New Deal championed today by
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