In ordinary times, the Old Right would be decidedly handicapped in a GOP intramural.

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As Martin Wolf of the Financial Times in London suggests, the strategy of EU-wide synchronized liberalizing, the great hope of recent times, appears to be out the window and a new round of intramural competition is likely to take its place.

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Where there are sex-segregated classes or athletic activities, including intramural and interscholastic athletics, all students must be allowed to participate in a manner consistent with their gender identity.

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You need to be as willing to join an intramural sports or poker night with the guys as you are to organize a night out with the ladies.

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In youth sports, that social contract would be re-instituting sports, at least on an intramural level, at schools, from elementary on up, so kids have a more equal shot at being exposed to athletics, and a more equal shot at succeeding.

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