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Oct 26, 2023 | 
mercatornet.com | J. Budziszewski |Michael Cook |Melanie Notkin
The Good Samaritan is a model of virtue because he gave assistance to a stranger who sorely needed it, at significant cost to himself, after several who might have been thought to have a greater duty to help passed the sufferer by. But what if there is no such thing as virtue? What if the Samaritan wasn’t really good? What if he merely happened to relieve suffering that time, but another time might have turned a blind eye to it? What if it all depends on the occasion?
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Oct 26, 2023 | mercatornet.com | J. Budziszewski |Michael Cook |Melanie Notkin
The Good Samaritan is a model of virtue because he gave assistance to a stranger who sorely needed it, at significant cost to himself, after several who might have been thought to have a greater duty to help passed the sufferer by. But what if there is no such thing as virtue? What if the Samaritan wasn’t really good? What if he merely happened to relieve suffering that time, but another time might have turned a blind eye to it? What if it all depends on the occasion?
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Sep 17, 2023 | 
mercatornet.com | J. Budziszewski |W. Bradford Wilcox |Wendy Wang |Mathew Otieno
On this day, my wife and I celebrate our 52nd anniversary. When we married, we had scarcely any idea what we were doing. I am glad to announce that even as boneheaded as we are, we have learned something. Everyone knows that the matrimonial union requires work and faces difficulties.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
mercatornet.com | Michael Cook |J. Budziszewski
Dunno how many of you guys have iPhones, but if you do, you're invested in the biggest innovation in years -- a USB-C port on the iPhone 15. Biggest innovation? Yeah, it does look like the pace of progress is rapidly slowing down if we're only talking about charging cables. But enjoy the buzz in this video from the WSJ.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
mercatornet.com | Michael Cook |J. Budziszewski
Gay conversion therapy is an international issue. But only eight European countries have banned it completely – Malta, Greece, Spain, France, Germany, Albania, Cyprus and Iceland. (Portugal has passed legislation, but the bill has not become law.)Strangely, Sweden is a hold-out, despite a vigorous campaign for a ban by activist groups and major political parties. Sweden has a well-deserved reputation for progressive views on LGBTQI+ rights. Homosexuality was legalized as long ago as 1944.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
mercatornet.com | Kurt Mahlburg |Michael Cook |J. Budziszewski
The oldest institution of higher learning in the United States has been named the worst for free speech in the nation. Harvard University, originally founded by Puritans fleeing England in search of tolerance, scored 0.0 out of a possible 100 points on this year’s College Free Speech Rankings. Published by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), the report aggregated the responses of over 55,000 students from more than 250 colleges and universities nationwide.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
mercatornet.com | W. Bradford Wilcox |Wendy Wang |Michael Cook |J. Budziszewski
Social media and mainstream media are replete with stories suggesting marriage and parenthood are not fulfilling, especially for women. Not surprisingly, many Americans now believe the key to being happy is a good education, work, and freedom from the encumbrances of family life—not getting married and having a family.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
mercatornet.com | Michael Cook |J. Budziszewski
Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse wound up in December 2017. In five years, it held 8,000 private sessions, held 444 days of public hearing, heard more than 1,200 witness, commission more than 100 research papers, examined more than 1.2 million documents, and generated more than 45,400 pages of transcripts. The final report comprised 17 volumes. It cost A$342 million. What has become apparent in recent months is that this was not $342 million well spent.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
mercatornet.com | Mathew Otieno |Michael Cook |J. Budziszewski
Sometime in April 2023, India overtook China to become the most populous country in the world. Naturally, this change received copious amounts of press around the world. The two giants will fundamentally reorder global geopolitics in this century, and their demography is one of the most significant reasons behind this.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
mercatornet.com | Michael Cook |J. Budziszewski
Sports are no place for activism – unless of course we agree with that activism. In this entertaining brief video from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression shows how we can be too quick to judge and to censor. Share it around.
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