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Trump is Smart to Insist a Military Option Against North Korea Remains on the Table 0
- International
- August 29, 2017
President Donald Trump said “all options are on the table” Tuesday in response to North Korea firing a ballistic missile that passed over Japan. “The world has received North Korea’s latest message loud and clear: this regime has signaled its contempt for its neighbors, for all members of the United Nations, and for minimum standards
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Militarization Makes Police More Violent 0
- Politics
- August 29, 2017
When Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced yesterday the Trump Administration’s repeal an Obama-era rule limiting the distribution of certain military equipment (such as tracked vehicles, camouflage uniforms, high-powered rifles, bayonets, and grenade launchers), he dismissed concerns about police militarization as “superficial.” The evidence suggests otherwise: militarization makes police more violent. Earlier this year, a study conducted by researchers from
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The Battle against Temptation Is Worth It, Men 0
- Family
- August 29, 2017
For the last nine months, my lifestyle has been that of the single, solitary bachelor. With family in another state and most of my friends being married with kids, I go home from my nine-to-five job to my studio apartment alone. And so, I can empathize with the growing mass of today’s lonely, American men
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The Morality of Modern Education is Relativism 0
- Culture
- August 29, 2017
It would be a mistake or, at any rate, an exaggeration to say that modern education has turned its back on morality. It has not. It’s just that the morality it pursues is that of radical relativism with its radical skepticism about the benefits of the “great conversation” that has animated educated discourse for almost
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Antifa & Neo-Nazi Propaganda: Are you susceptible?0
- Culture
- August 29, 2017
Do you believe that anyone who disagrees with your beliefs is the enemy? Would you ever don the white “glory suit” of the KKK or the balaclava and black hoody of Antifa? Would you ever hold this sign? Would you ever stand with this group? Can you fill yourself with such rage that you would
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Mark Lilla: My Students Are Consumed with Their Own Identities 0
- Education
- August 29, 2017
The New Yorker, one of the last great literary publications still in existence, recently ran a fascinating interview with Mark Lilla. For those unfamiliar with Lilla, he is a professor at Columbia who caused a bit of a fuss last November when he wrote an article for the New York Times imploring fellow liberals to
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