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  • Why Bad Arguments Are So Persuasive

    Why Bad Arguments Are So Persuasive0

    A few years ago, two of my younger siblings were helping in the kitchen when my little brother decided to take my little sister’s snack. When asked why he would do such a thing, he looked at my mom and explained, as though it should have been obvious, that he took her snack because she

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  • Has the IVF Industry Been Lying to Millennials?

    Has the IVF Industry Been Lying to Millennials?0

    Recently the Sydney Morning Herald reported that a technique known as “endometrial scratching”, used in fertility clinics, has been found to be useless. A three-year study carried out in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, showed that the IVF add-on, costing up to $700 in Australia, did nothing to boost the chances of falling pregnant through in vitro fertilisation. Too

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  • How Craftsmanship Can Save the World

    How Craftsmanship Can Save the World0

    “Right before me, in full view and in all its perfection, was that work of beauty, no, that miracle, the Cologne Cathedral. More than its intricate ornamentation, it was its spiritual depth that struck me, its towers and spires striving up to the heavens. I gasped, and stared with my mouth open…” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s description

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  • How PC Moralism Cuts Us Off From Our Cultural Heritage

    How PC Moralism Cuts Us Off From Our Cultural Heritage0

    Anyone who has read classic literature knows that there are things in old books that offend our sensibilities. And this isn’t a new phenomenon either. Every generation sees something in the thought and writing of previous generations that it doesn’t like or that it finds offensive.    The difference today is not that there are

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  • Are Plastic Straws the New Smoking?

    Are Plastic Straws the New Smoking?0

    Plastic straw bans are taking America by storm. Local governments across the country are jumping on the band wagon. Last week, the Washington Post shadowed a health inspector visiting D.C. restaurants to see if they were complying with the city’s new ban. The most revealing quote in the article came from Julie Lawson, director of

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  • Ted Bundy and the Banality of Evil

    Ted Bundy and the Banality of Evil0

    A Facebook friend recently asked why people have an interest in serial killers. It’s a valid question and I don’t think she was posing it rhetorically. There must be a reason why audiences are drawn to shows like Netflix’s new four-part docu-series Conversations With A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes. It’s quite an emotionally draining commitment

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