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The risk that marijuana use poses to adolescents today is far greater than it was 20 or 30 years ago, because the marijuana grown now is much more potent. In the early 1990s, the average THC content of confiscated marijuana was roughly 3.7 percent. By contrast, a recent analysis of marijuana for sale in Colorado’s…

In our day, the alleged personal liberation of the sexual revolution is becoming progressively socialized in institutions and norms. As a result, we have moved beyond the cultural condition in which scientific research into the related social behaviors (hormonal contraceptive use, premarital sex, abortion, homosexual relations, gender transformation) is deployed for political ends, into a…

Carson’s Exegetical Fallacies is extremely helpful for identifying, categorizing, and exemplifying all kinds of bad reasoning in logical, historical, and hermeneutical contexts. It’s possible, however, for someone to get hold of the wrong end of the stick and assume that something is a fallacy when, in fact, it’s not. I’ll call it the Fallacy Fallacy.…

Your grief and guilt overwhelm you. You are so tired you cannot think straight. Your simple joys are lost in an invisible agony. You have pain in your head and back and stomach, real pain. The swamp of your soul suffocates you with despair. All this is your fault, you are worthless, and you might…

Wenger concludes his work by showing that the inner unity or common denominator of American fundamentalism in this specific time period cannot be attributed to social or cultural characteristics and ideas: While fundamentalists doubtless included rural and small-town Southerners and Midwesterners with little education, blindly loyal to the Constitution and capitalism, and suspicious of everyone…