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Should our politics be informed by Christianity?
Without going into great detail, I’m going to say no. An emphatic no. But I also have an emphatic yes to add to it. Yes, being Christians should inform our politics. But Christianity should not. Because, if it does, there is a very real chance that we will start to identify our politics with Christianity.…
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The 21st century person
The 21st century person is in half a dozen kinds of therapy, formal and informal, all of which tell them that they’re wonderful and special and that everyone else is terrible and is out to get them. The 21st century person believes that everyone is the product of deterministic social construction, but their own identity…
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Inherent dangers in revolutionary tactics
A response to the argument that you could win the abortion debate by allowing only women to vote on it, as more women than men favor restricting abortion. This sounds like a good tactic but sets a terrible precedent. It trades a dubious short term win for an unknowable long term cost. …
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The APA and “traditional” masculinity
This is funny, but it’s also kind of serious. The APA has basically taken the position that what has previously been understood as “deviant” sexuality and gender ideations are perfectly healthy and only require affirmative care, and traditional sexual and gender ideations are fundamentally diseased (disease classification is connected to harm, and they’ve declared them…
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Why Cinderella is a hero
After watching all the recent, revisionist versions of Cinderella, which focus on how the heroine is doing just fine and doesn’t need to be saved, valued, or rescued from her plight by anyone (much less a man), I sometimes wonder if women would appreciate it just as much if we released some updated romances where…
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What is a false god?
A false god is any finite and limited thing, any desire, any ideology, any program, any belief, that has been elevated to the level of a divine universal. And our pantheon today is just as rich as that of any age, perhaps moreso. Our rituals, our displays, and our fervor are just as…
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Men are from Mars, women are from Venus
I think part of the reason men and women communicate differently is that they teach themselves to communicate differently. If you want to succeed in a social group of young males you need a very different skill set from young females. I should know. Most of my friends were girls; most of them still are.…
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Sympathy for men and minorities
Men are struggling, no one cares – a talk by Warren Farrell This commentary is more in response to the headline than the actual forementioned discussion, but yes, no one cares. Men don’t care because they’re too competitive. If some men fail, that’s not really our problem; if anything it’s to our advantage.…
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Our natural vulnerability to communication
One of the great miracles and great tragedies of humanity is that we are so adaptable. We are so adaptable that we will change in response to however the world is represented to us. Which also means that people will behave in the manner of the thing that you treat them like. …
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Self-indulgent self-analysis
Want to hear me pontificate about myself? Who doesn’t love that kind of thing? No, seriously, this isn’t narcissism. I wrote the following entry as I was trying to analyze and understand myself. I don’t know why anyone else would care about that. But maybe it could serve as an example for self reflection? Is…
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