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  • Marvel’s Mentorship Crisis

    Marvel’s Mentorship Crisis0

    Are you growing weary of superhero films? Many viewers are, but others still fill the theaters, especially if the film presents the opportunity to enjoy another cameo of the now deceased father of the Marvel Universe, Stan Lee. I’m in this latter camp. I find it hard to resist the appeal of a good fight-scene,

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  • Why the Recent Push for the Equal Rights Amendment Isn’t Necessary

    Why the Recent Push for the Equal Rights Amendment Isn’t Necessary0

    If asked about the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), most people would say it was something that died out in the 1970s. Women were liberated and worked their own way into male-dominated arenas without bothering with the amendment that couldn’t become law. But according to recent reports, interest in resurrecting the ERA is brewing in several

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  • Do Not Pet: The Consequences of Humanizing Animals

    Do Not Pet: The Consequences of Humanizing Animals0

    Every so many months it happens again: someone crosses the barrier into a zoo animal’s cage or encounters an animal in the wild, expecting it to be friendly and docile, only to be confronted with the fact that they are called wild animals for a reason. Take the recent instance of an Arizona woman who

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  • Can Paedophilia Stage a Comeback?

    Can Paedophilia Stage a Comeback?0

    In MercatorNet last week Carolyn Moynihan predicted that paedophilia would make a comeback as a legitimate form of sexual expression, provided that it was loving and consensual. It was, she argued, a natural consequence of the ideology of the Sexual Revolution and that even if it is reviled as the worst of crimes at the

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  • Questions, But No Answer

    Questions, But No Answer0

    Questions about various events, propositions, and ideas in our culture and politics have me bemused, baffled, and bewildered. As a young woman in Tennessee once said when I asked for directions, “Well, I am just plain bumfuzzled.” Bumfuzzled. That’s it exactly. My inquiries below may strike readers as intended to provoke, but provocation is the

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  • The Myth of American Meritocracy

    The Myth of American Meritocracy0

    The most destructive and pervasive myth in America today is that we live in a meritocracy. Our elites, so the myth goes, earned their places at Yale and Harvard, on Wall Street and in Washington—not because of the accident of their birth, but because they are better, stronger, and smarter than the rest of us. Therefore, they

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