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No Room for the Yang Gang?0
- Politics
- August 12, 2019
On August 8th Democratic outsider nominee Andrew Yang became the ninth candidate who qualifies for the next round of presidential debates. This may come as a surprise since the mainstream media has devoted its energies to focusing on Biden, Warren, Sanders, and Harris. This fact, coupled with the presidential debate held in late July, underscores
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Questioning the Back-To-School Default 2
- Education
- August 9, 2019
Back-to-school time is upon us. My Instagram feed is starting to fill with first-day photos as a new school year begins this week in some parts of the country. For those of us who homeschool, we often get asked, “So, why did you decide to homeschool?” We respond with various personal and educational reasons, including the top motivator for
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The He-Man Woman Haters Club: Welcome to the World of the Incel 2
- Culture
- August 9, 2019
Suppose you were a young man living in a society drenched in sex. Suppose movies featured erotic scenes of beautiful women making love with handsome men. Suppose magazines featured gorgeous models in advertisements. Suppose many books of fiction, some of which our parents and grandparents would have regarded as pornographic, featured vivid sexual acts. Suppose
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A Gun Control Lesson From Australia’s Cat Genocide 0
- Culture
- August 9, 2019
As America reels from another string of mass shootings, first in El Paso, then in Dayton, Ohio, the debate over gun control is heating up again. Any rational observer realizes that there is something deeply flawed with how we traditionally talk about guns in America. I wonder if we would be better off if we
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When Free Speech Clashes With Trans Power 0
- Culture
- August 9, 2019
While Vancouver, British Columbia, has been on the front lines of the trans and free speech debates, the recent Pride Parade was a real flashpoint, giving us a clear insight into what we might expect on the U.S. cultural front in the not-so-distant future. In recent years, Pride has morphed from an LGBTQ-only celebration to
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Department of Education to Probe Athletic Program Allowing Transgender Females to Compete With Girls 0
- Culture
- August 9, 2019
The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is opening an investigation into whether female high school athletes were discriminated against when the state of Connecticut allowed males who identify as females to compete with them. The three high school girls pursuing the complaint include Selina Soule, who earlier this year missed qualifying for the 55-meter dash
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