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  • Is Loneliness Driving People to Eat Out More?

    Is Loneliness Driving People to Eat Out More?0

    In recent years, data has shown that the money Americans spend eating out at restaurants has slowly overtaken the amount spent at grocery stores. It’s easy to look at such numbers and quickly lay the blame at the feet of the younger generation: they’re lazy, they don’t have any basic skills, and they don’t understand

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  • Is Lack of Play the Reason Kids are Depressed?

    Is Lack of Play the Reason Kids are Depressed?0

    Last week we discussed the words of psychologist Jean Twenge, who declared that the rise of depression and anxiety in Americans is a result of communal and familial decline, as well as an intensified focus on money, fame, and image. While these are logical and likely culprits, Dr. Peter Gray believes there is another factor

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  • Is Kleptocracy the Most Common Form of Government?

    Is Kleptocracy the Most Common Form of Government?0

    “Kleptocracy” means “rule by thieves”. People have been complaining for millennia that such is what their government is. How common is such rule? And if it’s that common, can much be done about it? In his classic book The City of God, St. Augustine lamented that the Roman Empire, having been built by force and fraud,

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  • Is Killing a Tyrant Ever Justified?

    Is Killing a Tyrant Ever Justified?0

    In his work De rege et regis institutione (1599), Jesuit priest Juan de Mariana examines the limits of political power, which, in sixteenth-century Europe, was exercised by monarchs. According to Mariana, monarchs should be subject to the same moral standards as the governed. Should they deviate from the principles of natural law by confiscating the

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  • Is Justice a Matter of Truth or Power?

    Is Justice a Matter of Truth or Power?0

    In the first book of the Republic, Plato shares a conversation between Socrates and Thrasymachus, a Sophist orator, that touches on the nature of truth, justice, and law. “I proclaim that justice is nothing but the interest of the stronger,” Thrasymachus tells Socrates. He continues: “…the different forms of government make laws democratical, aristocratical, tyrannical,

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  • Is John F. Kennedy Responsible for the Alt-Right?

    Is John F. Kennedy Responsible for the Alt-Right?0

    JFK and the Masculine Mystique: Sex and Power on the New Frontier, is a powerful and incisive new book about men. Written by Steven Watts, the book combines thorough research, penetrating analysis, and graceful prose. One of the more intriguing arguments in the book is that Kennedy was responsible for unmooring traditional values due to

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