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On December 1 Salon.com published an article that suggests that exposure to pornography can help protect children from exposure to sex abuse. — This is something like teaching children to be pickpockets in order to prevent them from living a lifetime of crime. — The article’s headline “Could child porn …

This year’s first big summer movie, “Iron Man 2,” reprises the adventures of Tony Stark, the iron suit-wearing industrialist who fights off evil-doers. The media have had fun outing the fictional billionaire as a rarity in Hollywood movies – a capitalist hero. Actually, Stark, played by Robert Downey Jr., is …

Today is Jane Addams’s 150th birthday. It is a natural moment to honor her. But what should we remember her for? She is not as famous as she once was, although many people know her name. (Or think they do. No, she was not the wife of President John Adams. …