Culture

There’s Nothing Fake About the Dangers of Transgender Medications 1
- Culture
- October 2, 2019
A terrifying story about drugs for transgender children has been making the rounds in the past few days. Originating in LifeSiteNews, it claimed that Lupron, a puberty-blocking drug used in treating transgender children, has been associated with 6,000 deaths. It spread like wildfire across conservative sites. However, it was quickly debunked as “a viral fake news
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The Will to Power: Welcome to Our New Paradigm 0
- Culture
- October 1, 2019
We are passing from the modern age to the postmodern age. If the modern age rested upon the idea of objective truths with reason as our guide, the postmodern age rests upon the rejection of the objective and the embracing of the personal, the belief that truth is relative to the individual. Nietzsche gave
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What We Get Wrong About Pursuing Equal Outcomes 0
- Culture
- October 1, 2019
What happens when you suggest that someone’s failure to get something they believe they deserve is due to widespread – even systemic – maliciousness? Social malfunction. African American economist Thomas Sowell, in Discrimination and Disparities, puts it this way: Those who seem to be promising an end to existing group disparities, as a result of
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How Technical Education Helps Male Students Earn More 0
- Culture
- October 1, 2019
Job prospects for young men who only have a high school diploma are particularly bleak. They are even worse for those who have less education. When young men experience joblessness, it not only threatens their financial well-being but their overall well-being and physical health. Could a high quality and specialized technical education in high school
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Politics is Crowding Out Culture and Childhood 0
- Culture
- October 1, 2019
Many years ago, when I was teaching at Providence College, I showed up for a meeting of the faculty senate. That was rare for me. I loathe campus politics. But a friend of mine had put forward a proposal for a program in Classics, and I attended to lend my support. It turned out that
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The Hazards of ‘Normalizing’ Impeachment 0
- Culture
- October 1, 2019
I must confess I am torn on impeachment. Not the “whistleblower report” or the House Democrats’ looming inquiry into President Donald Trump, that is, but on the question of whether impeachment should become a routine form of White Housecleaning or remain, as impeached former President Bill Clinton often said of abortion, “safe, legal and rare.”
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