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<title><![CDATA[Margaret Wente - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16208.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Margaret Wente]]></description><category domain="16208">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[My Cancelation Doesn't Bother Me. The Cowardice Does]]></title>
							<link>https://quillette.com/2020/07/09/it-wasnt-my-cancelation-that-bothered-me-it-was-the-cowardice-of-those-who-let-it-happen/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It doesn't take much to get cancelled these days. Last month, my turn came around. The experience was unpleasant, but also completely ludicrous. And I learned a lot. I learned how easily an institution will cave to a mob. I learned how quickly the authorities will run for cover,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Official: Traditional Masculinity Is Sick, Sick, Sick]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-its-official-traditional-masculinity-is-sick-sick-sick/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the matter with men? The American Psychological Association has the answer. The matter with men is masculinity.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Migration Crisis Will Shatter Europe]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-migration-crisis-will-shatter-europe/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As politicians wrangle behind closed doors, the MV Lifeline is in limbo.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Grande-Sized Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-starbucks-has-a-grande-sized-problem/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I like my local Starbucks. The multiracial, polygendered staff are efficient, kind and good.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Brave New World of Gender-Neutral Kids]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-brave-new-age-of-gender-neutral-kids/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time to #DeleteFacebook]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-time-to-deletefacebook/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Margaret Atwood Is a Blood-Drinking Monster]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/margaret-atwood-is-a-blood-drinking-monster/article37609895/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Margaret Atwood likes to stir the pot. Always has. You've got to like her for that. So when she'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' wrote a piece'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in Saturday's Globe and Mail called "Am I a Bad Feminist?", she can't have been too surprised by the vitriol that ensued. What might surprise the rest of us is where it came...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[So Sorry, Trump's Not Dead Yet]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/so-sorry-trumps-not-dead-yet/article37344673/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Are Good Men So Hard to Find?]]></title>
							<link>https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/why-are-good-men-so-hard-to-find/article36365252/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are Today's Dads Really So Pathetic?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/are-todays-dads-really-so-pathetic/article35330889/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Maybe it's time to give the guys a break]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Original Sin of White Privilege]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/the-original-sin-of-white-privilege/article35124053/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No one would argue that privilege doesn't exist, or that racism is extinct, but privilege comes in many forms]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ladies, Check Your Privilege]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/ladies-check-your-privilege/article33797846/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Men still call most of the shots, but women today have a far wider range of socially acceptable life choices]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sorry, Women's Solidarity Is a Mirage]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/womens-solidarity-is-a-mirage/article33704854/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The real lesson of the March on Washington is that women are every bit as divided as the country is over Donald Trump's presidency]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Radicals Have Taken Over Canadian Universities]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/academic-extremism-comes-to-canada/article33185073/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Until recently, Henry Parada was director of the School of Social Work at Ryerson University, Toronto'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s big downtown commuter school. His career was going well and he got major research grants. Now he has stepped aside after a handful of students calling themselves the Black...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Voters Deserve Respect. Here's Why]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/us-election/trump-voters-deserve-respect-hereswhy/article32816170/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Middletown, Ohio, Margaret Wente sees a more complicated picture of the Trump voter base than stereotypes about the uneducated and economically downtrodden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Darkness Over Europe]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/a-darkness-over-europe/article31220210/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An end to immigration, mass deportations, harsh restraints on civil liberties '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' all are possible]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Bullies of Black Lives Matter]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/the-bullies-of-black-lives-matter/article30746157/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Toronto'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s legendary Pride Parade is a festival of inclusiveness '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' a good-natured rainbow coalition that embraces every letter of the LGBTQ alphabet. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s so inclusive that even straight people march in it. Its message is: Loud, proud and unbowed. Nobody can bully us any...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Orlando Divides America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/how-orlando-divides-america/article30423670/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today, 9/11 seems as if it happened in another century. After the planes hit the towers, Americans stood united in their grief and solidarity. They cast aside their partisanship to mourn the dead.Orlando was different. The bodies were scarcely cold by the time the shouting began. On the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If Trump Wins, I'll Eat This Column]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/if-trump-wins-ill-eat-this-column/article29287461/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Forget about hope and change '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? this presidential election is all about fear and loathing]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is This as Good as It Gets?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/is-this-as-good-as-it-gets/article28929770/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After more than a century of dazzling breakthroughs, we might have to settle for a future of incremental progress]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Explosive Science of Genetics]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/the-explosive-science-of-genetics/article28462603/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Discoveries at the molecular level are challenging our thinking on everything from parenting and education to broader social policy]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lessons From a Lifetime of Self-Improvement]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/lessons-from-a-lifetime-of-self-improvement/article28079345/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Practice should make perfect when it comes to good intentions. But although the spirit is willing, the flesh is too-often weak]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tashfeen Malik: What Kind of Mother Would Do This?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/what-kind-of-mother-would-do-this/article27637057/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What kind of mother would say goodbye to her six-month-old daughter, then drive with her husband to his workplace one morning to calmly, deliberately slaughter as many of his co-workers as possible?Tashfeen Malik was that kind of mother. It was she who evidently radicalized her husband....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Your Handy Guide to the Paris Climate Talks]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/your-handy-guide-to-the-paris-climate-talks/article27388857/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama will be there. Justin Trudeau will be there. Everyone who'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s anyone will be descending on Paris next month to strike a global deal to fight climate change. At stake is nothing less than the future of the planet. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'We are at a turning point now,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' declared UN...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Are Young Feminists So Clueless About Sex?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/why-are-young-feminists-so-clueless-about-sex/article26950887/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, a Harvard senior named Reina Gattuso wrote a column in the school newspaper. It described her crummy night of drunken sex with a couple of men she didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t know. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I have so much to drink my memory becomes dark water,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' she wrote. She freely admitted that she...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Canada Goes Back to the Future, With the Kid]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/back-to-the-future-with-the-kid/article26887952/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A moment came during the red tidal wave Monday night when a friend turned to me in awe. The CBC'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s seat counter had just clicked past 180 for the Liberals. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Oh my God,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' she said. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'What have we done?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'No one, even diehard Conservatives, doubted that Stephen Harper...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Does Everybody Have a Popecrush?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/why-does-everybody-have-a-popecrush/article26464579/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
							<description><![CDATA[eople have gone gaga for the Pope. In Washington this week, the hottest ticket in town is an invitation to Wednesday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s reception for the pontiff at the White House. In New York, Wall Street zillionaires are jostling for seats at a papal prayer service. People are snapping up Pope...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Kind of Monster Is Amazon?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/what-kind-of-monster-is-amazon/article26048705/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[White America Dons the Shroud of Guilt]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/white-america-dons-the-shroud-of-guilt/article25971483/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Michael Brown'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s death last year in Ferguson, Mo., created a new martyr for the black movement in America. Never mind what really happened: to many people, black and white alike, Mr. Brown was the victim of racist policing in a racist system in which all whites are complicit. If you...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Women Can Learn From Men]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/what-women-can-learn-from-men/article25414017/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Margaret Wente</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I wouldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t want to be a man these days. Men are usually in the wrong. They are under incessant attack for their moral failings. In every field of human endeavour, from Hollywood to science to the military, they stand accused of sexism, harassment and microaggressions against women....]]></description>
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