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“Your instincts should not be to celebrate when someone you don’t like is vaporized, because now you’re not challenging your own ideas, you’re not facing any opposition, it just turns into an echo chamber.”
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JBP: Lindsay Shepherd banned permanently from Twitter for defending herself from online harassment...
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 SLATE - SHANNON PALUS
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"All the evidence suggests they don’t help and might actually hurt, which means we need to devote more attention to better forms of mental health care."
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JBP: The latest on trigger warnings. Turns out they're counterproductive. Who would have guessed?
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"His reporting on Ngo’s reporting is shallow and careerist. He dwells on Ngo’s rising star paragraph after paragraph in a way that suggests that he’s reflecting on his and his outlet’s fading limelight. It’s not a good look..."
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"At PragerU, 80 of our videos are on YouTube's 'restricted' list, so if you have filters against pornography and violence, you can't see them..."
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"The intellectual scene always used to have room for great minds from the Right. Today they would be denounced for thought crime by a Left that cannot tolerate dissent..."
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JBP: Roger Scruton on the new voluntary authoritarianism...
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"The Orwellian problems Dhillon seeks to remedy may seem daunting, but there is an increasing number of independent voices that refuse to be silenced."
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"It is precisely in the worst of circumstances that this kind of empathy could be the most counterproductive..."
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JBP: A thoughtful piece on the dangers of misplaced empathy.
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"Just nominate a decent, sane person, one committed to reunifying the country and creating more good jobs, a person who can gain the support of the independents, moderate Republicans and suburban women who abandoned Donald Trump in the midterms and thus swung the House of Representatives to the Democrats and could do the same for the presidency. And that candidate can win!"
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JBP: "Dear Democrats: This is not complicated!"
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"You got a complaint? You come and talk to me about it. But do not tweet about our members and expect us to think that that is just okay.”
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JBP: Pelosi sides with the moderates against the progressives: progress?
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"This week, President Trump took a big step to stop the madness with one of the most important speeches of his presidency..."
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"And if you think this is some deluded ‘narrative’, then you only need to look no further than research studies taking this issue head-on."
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"People do not truly want an end to suffering in all cases…they need challenges in order to feel the thrill of victory, guilt over their actions to have a chance at redemption..."
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"I don’t think correctly identifying far-right content is beyond our capabilities. But if it is, why not go with Meredith’s suggestion of disabling the suggestions feature?"
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JBP: Google opines so neutrally on Shapiro, Prager U and me...
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SKEPTIC - JONATHAN N STEA
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"It is well known that clinical psychologist, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, has been portrayed in the media as a polarizing figure: bigoted alt-right charlatan on the one hand, superordinate fatherly free-speech protector on the other hand..."
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JBP: Support from a former student, now a clinical psychologist.
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"Your identity is not the clothes you wear, or the fashionable sexual preference or behaviour you adopt and flaunt, or the causes driving your activism, or your moral outrage at ideas that differ from yours: properly understood, it’s a set of complex compromises between the individual and society as to how the former and the latter might mutually support one another in a sustainable, long-term manner."
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JBP: New blog post on the true meaning of "identity."
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JBP: Thank you After Skool for creating this.
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Bishop Robert Barron is an acclaimed author, speaker, and theologian. He is the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries and Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He is also the host of the "CATHOLICISM" series, a groundbreaking, award-winning documentary about the Catholic Faith which aired on PBS.
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British composer Julian Anderson talks to Samuel Andreyev about his work, the avant garde, composition today and spectralism, among other topics.
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The 12 Rules Tour is now on hiatus until September. A return sojourn to Europe is planned for September. We hope to visit major cities in France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, and a number of venues in Eastern Europe, the Baltic countries and Russia. Stay up-to-date on tour events here.
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"Human beings are, after all, seriously remarkable creatures. We have no peers, and it's not clear that we have any real limits. Things happen now that appeared humanly impossible even at the same time in the recent past when we began to wake up to our planet-sized responsibilities."
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