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    • The Problem With Conflating Sexual Advances With Sexual Harassment

      The Problem With Conflating Sexual Advances With Sexual Harassment0

      It is wrong to ask someone intrusive questions about his private life. A federal appeals court made that clear in allowing a woman to sue over invasive questions by federal officials. It ruled that she had a plausible claim that federal officials violated her constitutional privacy rights by questioning her about private details of her

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    • A Brief History of Russia Meddling in Other People’s Elections

      A Brief History of Russia Meddling in Other People’s Elections0

      U.S. Special counsel Robert Mueller on Feb. 16 indicted Russian individuals and entities for interference in the U.S. presidential election. This is not a one-off act of Russian interference. In the previous nine years, Russia has invaded its neighbor Georgia, annexed the Ukrainian province of Crimea and supported rebels in Eastern Ukraine. As a historian

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    • How ‘The Abolition of Man’ Destroys the Idols of the Postmodern Age

      How ‘The Abolition of Man’ Destroys the Idols of the Postmodern Age1

      No one could rightly accuse C.S. Lewis, who was raised as a Northern Protestant Irishman, of betraying his adopted home of England. During the Great War, Lewis had—though exempt from any draft—volunteered to serve as an officer in the British Army. When he arrived in the trenches of that horrendous war, now a century gone

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    • Aristotle on Why Some Friendships Are Evil

      Aristotle on Why Some Friendships Are Evil0

      Good friendships seem worth celebrating. But for many of us, tensions can appear from time to time between being a good friend and doing “the right thing.” When faced with, for example, a situation where it’s tempting to lie to cover for a friend, it can seem as though friendship and morality are on a

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    • Politics Is Beginning to Consume Our World. That’s Bad.

      Politics Is Beginning to Consume Our World. That’s Bad.0

      I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Even after I’d earned my Ph.D. degree, my dad used to look at me with a twinkle in his eye and tell me, “Son, the trouble with you is that you don’t know nothing.” And he was right in regard to knowing worthwhile, practical things and having

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    • The Affective Fallacy: Understanding How Your Feelings Can Make You Dumb

      The Affective Fallacy: Understanding How Your Feelings Can Make You Dumb0

      The NBC show Friday Night Lights is about high school football in a small Texas community. High-school students are taking part in a class discussion when the brash star halfback, Brian “Smash” Williams crudely argues that monogamy is unnatural for a male. The teacher is puzzled by Smash’s statement. A female friend and classmate, Waverly,

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