Culture

Kristallnacht: Are We Experiencing the Modern Version?0
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- November 7, 2018
November 9th marks the eightieth anniversary of Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, in Germany. Earlier that month in 1938, a young Jew of Polish descent, Herschel Grynszpan, having learned of his family’s forced expulsion from their home in Hanover, Germany, bought a revolver, entered the German embassy in Paris, and killed Ernst Van Roth,
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3 Ways to Make the Post-Election World Better 0
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- November 7, 2018
I scanned my sample ballot. The options were less than inspiring. “Surely,” I thought, “there is a better way than this.” Fortunately, there is. Voting isn’t the only way to effect social change—indeed, it isn’t necessarily a very good one given what we know about voter irrationality and the like. Here are three complements to
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The Economist Explains How Transgenderism Hurts Feminism 0
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- November 7, 2018
In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election in 2016, Mara Keisling, head of the National Center for Transgender Equality, anticipated his hostility. She declared that trans people would fight for their rights – and that “Over the last two decades, we have made faster progress than any movement in American history”. That’s probably right. Faster
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Remembering Jim Jones and the Socialist Ideals He Held 0
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- November 6, 2018
Nov. 18 will mark 40 years since nearly 1,000 Americans—a majority of them African American—perished in a mass suicide/murder in the Jonestown compound in the jungles of Guyana. Many misconceptions surround this horror, but a new account dispels some common myths. Cult leader Jim Jones is often portrayed as having been a normal fundamentalist Christian
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D.C. Bureaucrats Are Trying to Make Parents Get a License to Let Children Play Together 0
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- November 6, 2018
Let’s say you and some of your friends decide to gather your young children together a couple of days a week for a few hours of free play. Maybe you switch off who leads the gaggle of kids each week, allowing for some shared free time and flexibility. Sounds like a great arrangement for all,
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Five Ways Couples Manage to Kill Love – and How to Avoid Them 0
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- November 5, 2018
Dr. John Buri, author of “How to Love Your Wife,” has an announcement: Love does not commit suicide. Yet we all know that love can die. So how does it get from a thriving, pulsating feeling and action to something as dead as a doornail? Plain and simple: We kill it. Some may say such
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