Culture

My America, 1620 0
- Culture
- November 16, 2018
In 1620, an extraordinary thing happened. At a small landing on the extreme western edge of the Atlantic Ocean, a boat named “Mayflower” rested just off shore of a rock, soon to be named Plymouth. Lost, but not mortally or dreadfully so, roughly 100 “sojourners” and 30 “strangers” arrived on November 11. With Autumn full
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Why the Enlightenment Thinkers Understood the Need for Religion 1
- Culture
- November 16, 2018
In January I resolved to read Will and Ariel Durant’s magnum opus The Story Of Civilization before the end of the year. It is now early November, and I have finished Volume X of this series, Rousseau and Revolution, meaning I should fulfill my self-imposed obligation under deadline. The Durants devoted the last three of
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There’s a Good Reason Many Women Make Less Than Men 0
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- November 16, 2018
Whenever it is reported that women make less money than men, it is automatically assumed that this must be the result of discrimination. What is seldom mentioned is the factors that go into these statistics. Are they talking about women who work the same hours as men? Who have the same level of seniority? Do
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Are Males Being Discriminated Against on College Campuses?0
- Culture
- November 15, 2018
A good case can be made that males are discriminated against on college campuses, and the discrimination has grown over time. Men are vastly outnumbered in America’s universities—in the fall of 2016, there were 2,667,000 more women studying than men. Not only are they significantly outnumbered, men are often disproportionately harshly treated in campus disciplinary
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The Best Way to Fight Political Hysteria 0
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- November 15, 2018
The week after Halloween, my first-grade grandson asked if I was afraid of monsters. “Only human ones,” I said. The confusion on his face alerted me to shift gears. “No, I’m not afraid of monsters. The older you get, the less you are afraid of monsters.” He paused, then asked: “Are you afraid of tomatoes?”
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Hayek: Social Justice Demands the Unequal Treatment of Individuals 0
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- November 15, 2018
Social justice is one of those squishy terms that is not easy to define. One thing we know for certain: social justice is not the same thing as justice, an age-old idea that was the focus of such thinkers as Aristotle, Plato, Augustine of Hippo, Aquinas, and Hume. (After all, if social justice meant the
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