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  • Is conspicuous consumption the cause of plummeting birth rates?

    Is conspicuous consumption the cause of plummeting birth rates?0

    Keeping up with the Jones can drive families into debt and make them envious and miserable. But it could also be an important driver of low fertility rates, according to a mathematical model developed by anthropologists and published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. “The areas were we see the greatest declines in

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  • Is Complaining about Society a Waste of Time?

    Is Complaining about Society a Waste of Time?0

    There are a growing number of conservatives who, similar to their progressive counterparts, have identified capitalism as the source of a great many evils in modern society. As the argument goes, unchecked freedom in the economic realm has led to unchecked freedom in the ethical realm; laissez-faire capitalism has laid the groundwork for the decline

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  • Is Common Sense Becoming Uncommon?

    Is Common Sense Becoming Uncommon?0

    • November 22, 2019

    How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four, because even if you call it a leg, it’s still a tail. – Abraham Lincoln P.J. O’Rourke once wrote, “Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” Common sense tells us the

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  • Is Common Core Math Causing Students to Fall Further Behind?

    Is Common Core Math Causing Students to Fall Further Behind?0

    Every few months it seems that another story pops up concerning some child’s confusing Common Core math homework. For examples, check out the three famous ones below:     As authors Katharine Beals and Barry Garelick explain in The Atlantic, homework questions such as these are an attempt to have children understand the concepts behind

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  • Is Commercial Surrogacy a Human Rights Disaster?

    Is Commercial Surrogacy a Human Rights Disaster?3

    “This is the most pro-family thing that the Legislature has done,” said Governor Gretchen Whitmer as she signed to legalise commercial surrogacy. Every American state has its own laws on surrogacy; until this year, a strict ban was in place in Michigan. Now it has joined the majority of states that permit some form of commercial surrogacy. The only

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  • Is Comfort Dulling Americans’ Minds?

    Is Comfort Dulling Americans’ Minds?0

    Ancient Greece represents a time of almost unparalleled intellectual creativity in world history. It had Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Democritus, Solon, Herodotus, Archimedes, and Hippocrates.   But according to many authors, what Ancient Greece did not have during its Golden Age was an obsession with comfort. And this fact may have played a large role in

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