Culture

Poly-Parenting: Is This The Brave New World We Want?0
- Culture
- August 20, 2020
In her recent New York Times article, “The Poly-Parent Households Are Coming,” Professor Debora L. Spar of Harvard Business School seems eager to welcome what she paints as the inevitable arrival of poly-parenting – babies biotechnologically conceived by any number of parent donors of every combination of biological sex. All this and more is facilitated by coming
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Dark Clouds and Silver Linings: Hope in Our Age of Anxiety 0
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- August 19, 2020
Recently a friend who works as an editor for a large homeschool company told me his supervisors had temporarily assigned him to the admissions department. “In June,” he explained, “our enrollments were up 35 percent, in July they were up 100 percent over the previous July, and now it’s mid-August and we’ve already broken that
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Hey, Hey. Ho, Ho. The New Order of ‘Peaceful Protests’ Has Got to Go.0
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- August 19, 2020
Another day, another video of “peaceful protesters” engaging in violent behavior. This time, the place is Portland, the victim a young man beaten repeatedly despite his plea that he wasn’t trying to hurt anyone. The images are disturbing, to say the least. Even if the man was intentionally trying to hurt protesters – which early
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Judge Blocks Law Preventing Transgender Athletes From Competing in Women’s Sports 0
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- August 19, 2020
U.S. District Judge David Nye of Idaho ordered a preliminary injunction on Monday temporarily halting a state law that prohibits transgender girls and women from competing in female athletics, the Idaho Statesman reported. Nye’s ruling will allow transgender girls and women to participate in women’s sports this upcoming fall at colleges and in secondary schools
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Fired for Accidentally Using Wrong Pronouns, Teacher Takes Case to Court 0
- Culture
- August 18, 2020
Peter Vlaming has two great passions – teaching and French. But a Virginia school district stripped the French teacher of the ability to impart these passions in high school classrooms when it fired him for not using pronouns preferred by a transgender student. “I explained to my principal that I couldn’t in good conscience pronounce
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CDC: A Quarter of Young Adults Contemplated Suicide During Pandemic 0
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- August 17, 2020
In economics, we talk a lot about unintended consequences. It’s easy to forget that societies are complex ecosystems. Legislators often pass sweeping changes hoping to achieve one result, not realizing it will create countless other consequences not intended. Some of the unintended consequences will be positive, but many of them will not be. A case
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