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Jul 17, 2024 | 
newbostonpost.com | Michael Robillard
Printed from: https://newbostonpost.com/2024/07/17/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-transgender-athlete/In the past several months, several state and federal lawmakers outside of Massachusetts have announced bills that would ban so-called “transgender athletes” from participating in women’s high school and college sports.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
newbostonpost.com | Michael Robillard
Items by Michael Robillard July 17, 2024, 13:52 EDT
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Oct 2, 2023 | 
americanmind.org | Adam Ellwanger |David Schaefer |Kenin Spivak |Michael Robillard
Salvo The federal government is playing with fire at the border. Salvo SCOTUS was correct to exempt service academies from its ban on race-based admissions. Salvo Despite the media’s subterfuge, Missouri v. Biden is a complete victory for the plaintiffs. Feature The Supreme Court succumbs to a fatal error in reasoning. Salvo The indictments of Donald Trump are tissue thin and intended only to harass him and disrupt the 2024 election.
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Oct 2, 2023 | 
americanmind.org | Michael Anton |Daniel Mahoney |Vamsee Juluri |Michael Robillard
Salvo On tradition, rights, and what justifies them. Salvo How radical relativism leads to ideological fanaticism. Salvo The presidential candidate stands against the Left's attacks on the ties that bind. Salvo A perfect theory and a buck fifty will get you a ride on the subway. Feature A demonology of the internet. Salvo The divide between church and state doesn’t separate religion from public education.
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Matthew Hoffman |Greg Lukianoff |Virginia Foxx |Michael Robillard
In the Henrik Ibsen play An Enemy of the People, Dr. Stockmann, the town’s doctor, discovers that the local spa, the main source of the town’s economy, is making its patrons sick. After consulting with friends, Stockmann decides to publish an article in the newspaper bringing attention to this danger, calling for a temporary shutdown of the spa. In so doing, Stockmann garners the ire of interest groups within the town that argue he is intentionally trying to ruin the town’s economy.
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
americanmind.org | Alexander Riley |Isaac Simpson |Michael Robillard |E.J. Hare
Salvo Feminism seeks the extinction of the kind of men who built the world. Salvo What I saw at Vibecamp. Feature The Supreme Court succumbs to a fatal error in reasoning. Salvo With all the concern about men in women’s bathrooms, how come no one seems worried about the converse? Salvo What the critics of biological males in female sports miss. Salvo Single-sex schools could help boys' classroom struggles.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
americanmind.org | Michael Robillard
Truth matters. This, at least, is the official story. Academics, government officials, media personalities, and social media have all the dangers of “fake news” and “misinformation.” The proposed solution to this problem is experts, who invoke “the data” and “the science” with a reverent gesture toward the latest charts, graphs, studies, and spreadsheets.
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Sep 1, 2023 | 
americanmind.org | Michael Robillard
salvo 4 minutes The absurd concept of "fatphobia" denies objective realities about bodily health.
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Sep 1, 2023 | 
chroniclesmagazine.org | Michael Robillard
What We Owe the Futureby William MacAskillBasic Books352 pp., $32.00Oxford Professor MacAskill is going to save humanity—but he needs our help. Or at least our willingness to put aside our selfish short-term goals and let the experts decide what’s best. This is his gospel of “effective altruism,” in which he claims that technocrats using cutting-edge, data-driven science can optimize the well-being of humanity, both in the present and future.
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Aug 30, 2023 | 
americanmind.org | Michael Robillard
Last month, the Supreme Court declined to review a federal appeals court ruling that would grant certain protections to persons suffering from gender dysphoria under the Americans With Disabilities Act. The decision itself will further entrench “gender identity” as the newest protected category under civil rights law, laying the table for numerous infringements of religious and civil liberties for Americans on the other side of this divide.
