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Upworthy Stories are Not So Great
The left-wing slant of the web’s fastest-growing media company is definitely not hard to detect, but I’m a little surprised that Upworthy’s Wikipedia entry leads off with: “Upworthy is a left-wing...
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Trigger Warnings and Sanity
If you aren’t familiar with the term, trigger warnings are disclaimers that folks put at the top of blog posts (or other written materials) which they believe may cause post-traumatic stress reactions...
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Income Inequality, MotherJones, and Irony
First, let me say that I promise not to make a habit out of cherry picking MotherJones articles to use as a punching bag. I realize it’s unhealthy to spend too much time recapitulating the perceived...
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Are Liberals the Real Authoritarians?
I’ve been very influenced by Jonathan Haidt’s work on moral foundations theory which, in a nutshell, postulates that there are 6 components to intuitive moral reasoning, and that conservatives tend to...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Saint of Scientism
Doesn’t this look like it could be a screen shot of a televangelist? The overtly religious behavior of supposedly secular, anti-religious opponents is becoming increasingly obvious, but the reaction...
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Sameness or Sexism
Just came across a blog post by Patrick Rothfuss that made me a little sad. Here’s the relevant portion: Today Oot came up to me and asked me if I’d like to play a game. “What kind of a game?” I asked...
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Hoaxes, Hysteria, and Talking Past Each Other
Results of Google Image search for “minimum wage political cartoon.” Conservatives are heartless. Everyone knows this. Working poor can’t afford to put food on the table, but conservatives still oppose...
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White women and Trump.
Photo from “9 Women on Why They’re (Still) Voting for Trump,” New York Magazine 53% of white women voted for Trump. In the circles I run in, there was tons of coverage and discussion about the myriad...
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The Real War on Science
New York Times reporter and best-seller John Tierny published an excellent article with City Journal in which he argues that the Left has waged a far more damaging and effective war on science than...
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Are Democrats Outdoing Republicans When It Comes to Family Values?
Not really, despite what Nicholas Kristof has recently claimed. As W. Brad Wilcox of the University of Virginia explains, Here, Kristof is indebted to a book by family scholars Naomi Cahn and June...
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