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We hear much today about the “boy crisis, the “trouble with boys,” and a “war against boys.” These problems are real. The lack of father figures and male mentors, the overwhelming predominance of female teachers in the early school grades, an obsession in many cases with video games, the prejudice of both the classroom and
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A couple of years ago, my son and his family moved to Topsail Island, a barrier island south of North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Only one roadway, Island Drive, runs north to south, which means it is molasses-thick with traffic in the summer, especially on weekends when tourists are either leaving or arriving at the houses
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Nearly a year has passed since conservative journalist Helen Andrews’ essay “The Great Feminization” ignited a cultural firestorm. Her first paragraph ran as follows: In 2019, I read an article about Larry Summers and Harvard that changed the way I look at the world. The author, writing under the pseudonym ‘J. Stone,’ argued that the
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Almost 50 years ago, the music of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel was high on my list of favorites. Songs like “The Sound of Silence” and “Bridge Over Troubled Water” remain stuck in my head, welcome inhabitants in my attic of the past. Shortly after the release of their fifth album, the duo broke up.
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