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  • Traditional Masculinity Should Be GQ’s “New Masculinity”

    Traditional Masculinity Should Be GQ’s “New Masculinity”13

    GQ magazine held its 25th “Men of the Year” event in London last Wednesday. Talents from across the fields of culture, sports, and entertainment gathered for the glitzy gala celebrating the British men’s style magazine’s honorees for Men of the Year. Curiously, over a third of the personalities on that list were women. Of the

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  • There Are Too Many Saviors on My Cross

    There Are Too Many Saviors on My Cross10

    This article’s title derives from a poem published 50 years ago by actor and film star Richard Harris. Written in free verse, and recorded and released as a record in the days when vinyl was king, Harris’s poem was a cry for peace in Northern Ireland, a land plagued by political and religious violence between

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  • Will the ‘Effective Altruism’ Movement Go Up in Smoke Along With FTX?

    Will the ‘Effective Altruism’ Movement Go Up in Smoke Along With FTX?5

    On November 1, 30-year-old Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was considered one of the world’s sharpest businessmen. SBF’s company was worth a cool US$32 billion; he was a major benefactor for a range of philanthropic causes; he was a major donor to the Democrats in the midterm elections; he was an icon

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  • We Live in a Culture of Pornography

    We Live in a Culture of Pornography7

    Pornography websites get more traffic in the U.S. than the sum total traffic of Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Pinterest, Zoom, and Netflix. And these days, most people are exposed to porn by the time they’re 13. More than ever, pornography today pushes the boundary of what’s acceptable, normalizing behaviors once seen as reprehensible. Playboy is not

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  • A Rare Exception to the 24/7 Woke Rule at NPR

    A Rare Exception to the 24/7 Woke Rule at NPR13

    There are probably more than a few Americans who can remember when NPR endeavored to speak to and for a much larger piece of the public than it does now. I was once a regular listener. This was way back in the days of Garrison Keillor, who was unpersoned by #MeToo a few years back, and

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  • Let’s Sing “Edelweiss”

    Let’s Sing “Edelweiss”13

    Dad wore his heart on his sleeve sometimes. A born-again Christian and father of 12, he had size 13½ feet that were good for booting his eight sons into line. Dad was a hard disciplinarian, so seeing him cry surprised me, but he could get misty hearing a sermon at church or watching The Sound

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