In this wonderful book, recommended to me by art historian Mary Ann Sures, Robert Hale examines 100 drawings of the Masters —including works of Michelangelo, da Vinci, Rodin, Goya, and Rembrandt—showing how these Masters tackled basic issues such as line, light, mass, planes, and anatomy.
“In America and across the Western world, adolescents were reporting a sudden spike in gender dysphoria—the medical condition associated with the social designation “transgender.” Between 2016 and 2017 the number of gender surgeries for natal females in the U.S. quadrupled, with biological women suddenly accounting for—as we have seen—70 percent of all gender surgeries.1 In 2018, the UK reported a 4,400 percent rise over the previous decade in teenage girls seeking gender treatments. In Canada, Sweden, Finland, and the UK, clinicians and gender therapists began reporting a sudden and dramatic shift in the demographics of those presenting with gender dysphoria—from predominately preschool-aged boys to predominately adolescent girls.” […]
“And Teen Vogue routinely educates girls that gender is a social construct. “The truth is, not all women menstruate and not all people who menstruate are women,” one article blithely informs readers, as if that were factual.” […]
“Transgender influencers coach other adolescents on how to wheedle a testosterone prescription from a skeptical clinician.” […]
“Her daughter just didn’t seem like “a boy trapped in a girl’s body.” She seemed like a girl who had had a lot of trouble fitting in with peers, who had been introduced to an explanation and latched onto it.”
“There is nothing crueler, more “toxic” to trans gurus than parents who fail to jump on board with each step of gender transition and every tenet of gender ideology.” “[…]
“Many of them peddle misinformation, outright medical falsehoods, and just bad advice. They extol the glories of testosterone as if it were a protein shake, not a Schedule III controlled substance. They enthuse over double mastectomies as if they were of no more significance than a haircut. They refer to skeptical parents as “toxic”—and encourage their audience to upgrade to a trans “glitter family.”
– Irreversible Damage
Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters is an exploration of a mystery: Why, in the last decade, has the diagnosis “gender dysphoria”, transformed from a vanishingly rare affliction, applying almost exclusively to boys and men, to an epidemic among teenage girls?
Teenage girls are taking courses of testosterone and disfiguring their bodies. Parents are undermined; experts are over-relied upon; dissenters in science and medicine are intimidated; free speech truckles under renewed attack; socialized medicine bears hidden consequences, and an intersectional era has arisen in which the desire to escape a dominant identity encourages individuals to take cover in victim groups.
Author Abigail Shrier presents shocking statistics and stories from real families to show that America and the West have become fertile ground for a “transgender craze” that has nothing to do with real gender dysphoria and everything to do with our cultural frailty to not question an ideology based on post-modern nihilism and political correctness.
Edith Packer’s “Lectures on Psychology: A Guide to Understanding Your Emotions“ cover a variety of topics: The Psychological Requirements of a Free Society, Understanding the Subconscious, Anger, The Obsessive-Compulsive Syndrome, The Art of Introspection, Toward a Lasting Romantic Relationship (in two parts), Happiness Skills, and The Role of Philosophy In Psychotherapy.
As the nation’s longest-serving CEO of a top-25 financial institution, Professor Allison has had a unique inside view of the events leading up to the financial crisis. He explains how government intervention and regulation of the marketplace caused the housing crisis and the Great Recession of 2008-2009.
John David Lewis shows how victorious military commanders achieved long-term peace by identifying the fundamentals of the enemy’s ideological and social support for a war and then striking at this support destroying the enemy’s will to fight.
Victor Hugo’s heroic and epic novel follows the life of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict who now lives as a respected member of the community, who has taken an oath to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, all the while struggling to keep the policeman Javert from discovering his true identity.
“One of the greatest plays in all world literature.”- Ayn Rand
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A gorgeous graphic adaption of Anne Frank’s, The Diary of a Young Girl, that documents her life in hiding in Amerstdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.
Whether you are a scientist seeking to ground the principles of physics in reality, or an artist who wishes to understand the nature of art, or a philosopher puzzled over the problem of universals, or a teenager wondering about the meaning of life, or a historian wishing to grasp the link between the events in Nazi Germany and Ancient Greece, or a journalist seeking to grasp the cause of the slaughters in Rwanda and the cause of the slaughters in the schools of America, or a mother who wants to teach her child when one should and should not lie, or a businessman engaged in the virtue of making money, or a psychologist wishing to understand the relationship between the emotions and thought, or a college student in search of earth-shattering ideas for a graduate thesis, or a teacher wishing to understand the way the mind works, or a priest searching for a rational basis for morality — Leonard Peikoff’s Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand will have something of immense value to offer you — intellectually, morally, practically, and personally.
You may not agree with everything in the 494 pages of this engrossing book. You will agree that it was worth reading. — Mark Da Cunha
Thanks to advances in Modern medicine it is possible to successfully treat and even eradicate many serious ailments. In part, because of these advances, we now live 30 years longer than we did 100 years ago.
According to Paul A. Offit M.D., while we have learned much in the preceding decades, we still rely on medical interventions that are out of date and can damage our health. He shows that much conventional medical wisdom is not backed up by science.
He Overkill, he debunks 15 popular medical interventions that have long been considered gospel despite mounting evidence of their adverse effects:
The book notes, that “despite clear evidence to the contrary, most doctors continue to recommend them.”
“Analyzing how these practices came to be, the biology of what makes them so ineffective and harmful, and the medical culture that continues to promote them, Overkill informs patients to help them advocate for their health.”