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February 28, 2023
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Why You Should Binge Read Dean Koontz

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February 28, 2023
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If you want a rollicking good time spiced with powerful social commentary that stands unapologetically for righteousness and human liberty, a Dean Koontz novel fills the bill. But be forewarned. Once you start reading, you won’t want to stop until the last page is turned. Read More ›

Sad young beautiful woman sitting on the window at home isolated, watching out. Coronavirus quarantine concept.

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February 15, 2023
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No, ‘More Sex’ Will Not Cure Loneliness

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February 15, 2023
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The New York Times often promotes socially destructive policies and reckless personal behaviors in opinion columns. The latest example sees self-identified “sex and culture” writer Magdalene J. Taylor promoting promiscuity as a socially desirable cure for loneliness that will benefit society by forging greater levels of “social solidarity.” Read More ›

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February 2, 2023
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Freedom of Religion on the Chopping Block

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February 2, 2023
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A gauntlet has been thrown. Secularists are determined to impose their progressive beliefs on conservative faith communities. Those of us who believe that freedom of religion is the “first liberty” had better gird our loins. Because if the right to free exercise of religion is effectively suppressed, freedom of worship will be the next religious liberty on the chopping block. Read More ›

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January 16, 2023
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The Transgender Tide Is Turning

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January 16, 2023
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The time has come for an intense but mutually respectful societal conversation that focuses not only on the causes of transgenderism and the potential benefits of transitioning such people, but also the many risks and alternatives that can care compassionately for suffering people while maintaining cultural equilibrium. Read More ›

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January 2, 2023
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‘Baby Farms’ Are Already Here

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January 2, 2023
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Will artificial wombs replace natural gestation? Until very recently, that notion was a far-fetched conjuring out of futuristic novels such as “Brave New World.” But research is fast advancing that could make this dystopian prospect a reality. Read More ›

Young pea (Pisum) sprouts in a sunny vegetable garden

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December 20, 2022
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The Fear of Suffering Is Driving Us Crazy

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December 20, 2022
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But eliminating suffering is impossible. Not only is the goal Utopian, but it leads to ever-more-extreme distortions of decency and a collapse of public policy rationality—which ironically, can cause the very “evil” that suffering abolitionists yearn so desperately to prevent. Read More ›

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December 15, 2022
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Wesley J. Smith Discusses Dutch Court Decision to Strike Down Measure that Expands Euthanasia Laws

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December 15, 2022
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A court has struck down a measure to expand euthanasia laws in the Netherlands Read More ›

Male person with gloved hand turns off the intravenous drug system to the unconscious patient

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December 7, 2022
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Euthanasia Without Brakes

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December 7, 2022
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If we don’t change our current cultural trajectory we will end up in the same dark corner as Canada, the Netherlands, and Belgium. And the real danger to our cultural wellbeing is that the people who now complacently assume that such warnings are alarmist will be the ones applauding the loudest when that dark time comes. Read More ›

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December 2, 2022
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Wesley J. Smith Breaks Down the Left’s Push for “Human Unexceptionalism” With Laura Ingraham

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December 2, 2022
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Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith joined Laura Ingraham to discuss the culture of death that now pervades the Left and the wages of its anti-humanist philosophy. Read More ›

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November 21, 2022
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The United States of Social Anarchy

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November 21, 2022
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Can you sense it? Do you feel the dread? Institutions are failing. Cohesion has frayed. As the poet wrote, the center cannot hold, the best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity. Our country is becoming the United States of Social Anarchy. Read More ›