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  • Is Marriage No Longer Worth It for Men?

    Is Marriage No Longer Worth It for Men?15

    Recently, I dated a man a few times who, as I quickly learned, was opposed to marriage. He pointed out that the legal binding of a marriage puts the man in a very vulnerable position, one in which if – or he would say when – a divorce occurs, his home, children, and livelihood are

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  • Is Loneliness Fueling the Rise of Political Polarization in the U.S.?

    Is Loneliness Fueling the Rise of Political Polarization in the U.S.?0

    While browsing through a recently discovered bookstore, I stumbled across a book titled, Republican Like Me: How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right by Ken Stern. Finding the title intriguing, I opened the book and began reading about his experience breaking out of the political “bubble” and experiencing life on

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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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