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    Sep 4

    NEW cover story for latest TAC issue: The original liberating spirit of feminism "has been exchanged for an increasingly authoritarian and illiberal victim feminism." Everyone loses.

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  2. 7 minutes ago

    "There has never been any good reason to turn these people away, and it was extremely unfair to turn down their requests after they had already made the journey to Austria because they trusted that the U.S. would honor its commitment to accept them."

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  3. 37 minutes ago

    "Sometimes abandoned places reveal the flaws of infrastructure design. There are the famous cases of freeways bisecting neighborhoods and interstates bypassing smaller state and county roads. But this can happen on a much smaller scale."

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  4. 2 hours ago

    . : The West did not, of course, invent sacrifice, no matter how well citizens of the West have embraced it for the past two and one-half millennia. It did, however, invent something unique in the world, something to fight for.

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  5. 2 hours ago

    Dave Masciotra: Those concerned about tradition and cultural longevity can lament immigration and condemn 'open borders.' But if they are serious about American identity, they should begin and end with villainous corporate enterprise.

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  6. 3 hours ago

    . on the this week : 'You’d be forgiven for thinking this entire exercise was a colossal waste of time'

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  7. 3 hours ago

    Bill Kauffman: "Let’s scrap the national at sporting events and instead have partisans in each city sing or play or rally to their own songs, their own anthems."

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  8. 4 hours ago

    Sir Roger Scruton on the threat of chasing "genius" in architecture: Buildings that stand out when they should fit in are showpieces for their creators but can be offensive to the rest of us.

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  9. 4 hours ago

    ICYMI: A powerful report by on how synthetic drugs like can be up to 100x more powerful than morphine, deadlier than crack, and is being trafficked into the US like cheap underwear by China

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  10. 5 hours ago

    In 2018, feminists do walk the corridors of power. But in order to maintain their position and moral high ground they must deny the very power they command. More from this week:

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  11. 5 hours ago

    Dave Masciotra: The church gave energy to the soul genre, and with the ebbing of the church's influence, the music isn't what it used to be.

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  12. 6 hours ago

    . on the : Something tantamount to a national game of 'Clue' is underway. It was Mike Pence, with an email to the Times, in the Naval Observatory. It was Ambassador Jon Huntsman, Jr., with the phone, in the bathroom of his Moscow apartment.

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  13. 6 hours ago

    Peter Van Buren on the : There is no 'patriot' or 'Spartacus' here ...acting as a wrench inside the gears of government to disaffect policy "doesn’t make you a hero acting on conscience, just a traitor."

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  14. 7 hours ago

    "The great tragedy of McCain’s life was his advocacy of war and military intervention at almost every turn."

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  15. 7 hours ago

    "Christianity did establish a way to harness the sexual instinct, embed it within a community, and direct it in positive ways." Society - and much of Christianity itself - has lost this, and the loss is real.

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  16. 8 hours ago

    "To be sure, nationalistic displays have festered since 9/11. After the terrorist attacks of 2001, Major League Baseball ordered teams to play 'God Bless America' during games, and it spread like a pox, even into the lowest of the minors."

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  17. 8 hours ago

    "A supply-side approach is not adequate to addressing mass addiction and death. Treatment with counseling and medication ought to be a central policy priority, simply as a matter of reducing deaths."

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  18. 9 hours ago

    "Is sex the linchpin of Christian cultural order? Is it really the case that to cast off Christian teaching on sex and sexuality is to remove the factor that gives—or gave—Christianity its power as a social force?"

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  19. 9 hours ago

    "I understand why the idea of ruining Donald Trump’s day strikes some people as manifestly self-justifying but honestly, if you have an unstable man prone to paranoia and fits of rage sitting in the Oval Office, is it really a good idea to poke that bear?"

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  20. 10 hours ago

    "The long post-fireworks party was peppered with 'this is ‘MURICA, goddammit' mock-patriotism, delivered with the exaggerated machismo of young men negotiating their way, haltingly, toward genuine masculinity."

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  21. 11 hours ago

    "I recommend taking your kids outside with a wiffle ball and bat, and just have some fun with them. Maybe some other children, tired of staring at a screen, will come out and make some memories worth preserving."

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