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Tribalism is bad. Sensible people will know what I mean by tribe. It's not a club based on some common preference like stamp collecting or bowling or…
An older generation of Americans, including Jewish Americans, admire the colonists who resisted the British king and parliament in the late 1700s…
How to talk to a tomboy: First: "Stop! Girls don't do that!" Then: "You're fine. Girls can do that too." Now: "You're really a boy. Take this drug."
Big questions are being thrashed out these days. One of the biggest is this: do we want capitalism or socialism? Unfortunately, the online discussions…
“The theory that crime is caused by poverty is not supported by the known facts. The very poor, in fact, tend to be just as law-abiding as the rich, and…
We should reject the fashionable idea that one should never write or post anything that possibly could be used by bad people for bad purposes. The…
I'm old enough to remember this 1960s Lay's Potato Chips commercial. (Hell, I'm almost old enough to remember when plays were in black and white!) In…
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