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• Originally published 06/02/2014

  The Wild Children of Yesteryear

  Parents back then encouraged kids to get some wildness out of their system, to express the republic’s revolutionary values.

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• Originally published 09/26/2013

  Stanislav Petrov: The man who may have saved the world

  Petrov prevented the Soviet Union from responding to an (erroneous) signal of an American nuclear attack.

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• Originally published 09/26/2013

  Iran’s Leader, Denouncing Holocaust, Stirs Dispute

  The Iranian leader faces criticism at home for seeming to acknowledge the Holocaust.

• Originally published 06/23/2013

  Jonathan Zimmerman: Children are Sexual Creatures

  Jonathan Zimmerman is a professor of education and history at New York University. He is the author of Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory and three other books. In 1985, the founder of modern American sex education gave a controversial speech about erections in fetuses. To Mary Calderone, who had started the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States back in 1964, new evidence about arousal in male fetuses demonstrated once and for all that children were sexual beings.Nonsense, said conservatives. To critics of sex education, childhood was — or should be — a time of sexual innocence. Racy movies, TV shows and magazines made kids prematurely interested in sex. And so did sex education, which robbed them of their natural virtue and replaced it with tawdry thoughts and feelings.I thought of this debate as I read the comments by Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, during the House debate on Monday over a bill that would ban almost all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. According to Burgess, fetuses do not simply experience sexual arousal; they actively arouse themselves.

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• Originally published 07/18/2014

  Why a bill against medical experimentation on minors is necessary

  Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) explained the motivation behind H.R. 4989, known as Justina's Law. "Sixteen months ago, Justina was a [competitive] figure skater. Today, she cannot stand, sit or walk on her own." The bipartisan legislation aims to chop federal funds to "research in which a ward of the State is subjected to greater than minimal risk to the individual's health with no or minimal prospect of direct benefit."  The proximate cause is the tragic saga of now-16-year-old Justina Pelletier. Both officials in Massachusetts and medical staff at Boston Children's Hospital (BCH) are accused of sanctioning and conducting experimental research on Justina after removing her from parental custody. Justina's ordeal occurred over the vigorous objections of both parents.