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  • Pediatricians Offer 3 Simple Guidelines for Toy-Buying Parents

    Pediatricians Offer 3 Simple Guidelines for Toy-Buying Parents0

    We’ve all seen it happen. Pick out the toy you only dreamed about as a child, wrap it up, watch a little tot open it, and… see him start playing with the box. It’s an old cliché that’s so true it’s laughable. So how can we avoid such a scenario and ensure that the children

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  • Moralitis: The Cultural Virus That Keeps Reason at Bay

    Moralitis: The Cultural Virus That Keeps Reason at Bay0

    Common sense has a bad name. Among the educated middle class, it has connotations with the backwardness of provincial folk, reverence to tradition, and outmoded mores on gender and cultural diversity. That so many people continue to think in this way is no validation, because the intelligentsia derides the very notion of ‘normal’. Our culture

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  • California’s Background Check Law Had No Impact on Gun Deaths, Johns Hopkins Study Finds

    California’s Background Check Law Had No Impact on Gun Deaths, Johns Hopkins Study Finds0

    A new academic study has found that, once again, gun laws are not having their desired effect. A joint study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of California at Davis Violence Prevention Research Program found that California’s much-touted mandated background checks had no impact on gun deaths, and

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  • The Perpetual Presidency

    The Perpetual Presidency0

    Former President Barack Obama recently continued his series of public broadsides against his successor, Donald Trump. Obama’s charges are paradoxical. On one hand, Obama seems to believe that he, rather than Trump, should be credited with the current economic boom and the emergence of the United States as the world’s largest energy producer. But Obama

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  • Maybe You’re A Witch

    Maybe You’re A Witch0

    Those who seek to control and to destroy like to play with words. The great Athenian sculptor Phidias was persecuted by those who whimsically used the words “embezzlement” and “impiety.” Joan d’Arc was burnt and Galileo prosecuted via an eternally elastic concept of “heresy.” The witch hysteria relied on a protean concept of “evidence.” The

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  • Jane Austen Forever!

    Jane Austen Forever!0

    I’ve been reading Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to my ten-year-old daughter. I admit it was immediately motivated by my desire to watch with her the BBC mini-series, which the book was clearly written in order for them to produce one day. There’s a rule here that they have to do the book before they do the

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