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Valentine's Day is a "holiday" deserving of nothing but the greatest scorn and contempt. The problems associated with Valentine's Day are too numerous to even begin discussing. But we'll give it a try.
The other bad European idea that liberals now accept uncritically is idealism, which came to us from Kant. Idealism refuses to accept the existence of non-ideal facts about human behavior, like prejudice and sexual aggression. According to this system of belief, only rational beings are morally worthy and deserving...
Antics such as this make it difficult not to treat Zhirinovsky as a cartoon -- a man more deserving of ridicule than fear. That may be a mistake. Whether he believes what he says or not, he is clever, complex, and he keenly understands how to use publicity with devastating effectiveness...
In isolation, all of these things -- and more -- are wrong and should be set right. But in a world of limits, some rights are more sacred than others, some wrongs more deserving of punishment. Not every unfairness derives from the violation of a right. Robert Nagel, professor of law at...
Perhaps the most telling sign that even America's softest hearts are hardening is a radical reframing of the debate into terms that reject a sympathetic view of the homeless. In the '80s, the issue's leading spokesman was Robert Hayes, founder of the Coalition for the Homeless, who identified...