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Cover of 'A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement'

hardcover, by Wesley J. Smith — Over the past thirty years, as Wesley J. Smith details in his latest book, the concept of animal rights has been seeping into the very bone marrow of Western culture. One reason for this development is that the term “animal rights” is so often used very loosely, to mean simply being nicer to animals. But although animal rights groups do sometimes focus their activism on promoting animal[...]

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Cover of 'The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care (Paperback)'

paperback, by David Gratzer

We are surrounded by medical miracles: polio has been eradicated; childhood leukemia is now treatable; death by cardiovascular disease has declined by two-thirds in the last fifty years. Yet while American medicine has never been better, angst over American health care has never been greater.

Why is American health care such a mess? In this[...]

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Cover of 'The Cure : How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care'

hardcover, by David Gratzer

We are surrounded by medical miracles: polio has been eradicated; childhood leukemia is now treatable; death by cardiovascular disease has declined by two-thirds in the last fifty years. Yet while American medicine has never been better, angst over American health care has never been greater.

Why is[...]

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