Culture

Surprising Parenting Advice From ‘Vanity Fair’0
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- August 14, 2019
Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray, is a classic of English literature. The novel, which was published in serial form starting in 1847, offers a satirical look at society, manners, and human weakness. The plot centers on the scheming social climber Rebecca Sharp, and all the main characters are adults. However, over the course of
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Diagnosis of Gender Dysphoria – Too General and Too Much Harm?0
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- August 14, 2019
The diagnosis of gender dysphoria – defined as a conflict between a person’s physical sex and the one with which he/she identifies – is so general that it can embrace any of a multitude of other ailments. But once gender specialists decide on the diagnosis of gender dysphoria, they stop looking further. If a concerned patient or parent
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My Time in the University Gulag 0
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- August 14, 2019
Each of us is a center of the universe, and that universe is shattered when they hiss at you: “You are under arrest!” “Me? What for?” These were the words that every Gulag prisoner parceled out before detention. Who knew what their crime really was? Mine was being a Christian, cisgender male of European descent
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For Most Things, Recycling Harms the Environment 0
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- August 14, 2019
In 2008 I was invited to a conference called Australia Recycles! in Fremantle. I flew coach for 30 hours (we had to divert, at one point, to Auckland instead of Sydney because huge headwinds used up more fuel than expected) and landed in Perth and then was driven to Freo by one of the conference
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The Demographic Winter Is Here 0
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- August 13, 2019
The demographic winter is here. The last decades have witnessed an increase in the share of the population aged 60 and older, which has moved from around 12.5 percent in 1950 to almost 22 percent in 2017. In 2040, this number is expected to reach 28 percent of the U.S. population. In other words, in
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Jeffrey Epstein Fallout Shows How Little Trust Americans Have in Media and Government 0
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- August 13, 2019
The reaction to the news Saturday morning that sex-trafficker-to-the-stars Jeffrey Epstein reportedly had committed suicide while in federal custody was nearly universal: No one was buying the “official” story. Hashtags about the Clintons’ suspected culpability in Epstein’s death immediately dominated social media. People who had predicted Epstein would be dead before he faced trial felt
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