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  • Is Suicide Contagious?

    Is Suicide Contagious?0

    In 1983, The New York Times ran a story titled “MICRONESIA’S MALE SUICIDE RATE DEFIES SOLUTION.” The story opened with this nut graph: In the islands of Micronesia, young men are killing themselves at one of the highest rates in the world, researchers say, and no one knows what to do about it. Suicides among

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  • Is Spanking Harmful? Why Research Hasnt Given Us a Clear Answer0

    The spanking debate, in case you have not heard, is over. Or is it? Contrary to Psychology Today’s pronouncement, arguments over the effectiveness are far from over. Child professionals line up either on either side of the debate, armed with an arsenal of research supporting their own view. One of the more recent studies, conducted

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  • Is Society Destroying the Kind of Women Men Want?

    Is Society Destroying the Kind of Women Men Want?0

    Several months ago, I wrote a short piece asking whether or not men still “admire, respect, and value the women who don’t chase after or toy with them.” The question spawned from various works of classic literature and movies such as Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, which finds the heroine’s quiet, non-attention-grabbing ways captivating the heart

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  • Is Social Media Tearing Us Apart?

    Is Social Media Tearing Us Apart?0

    It feels like 1968. How do I know this? Because everyone is saying so. (If you don’t believe me, look at this.) To be fair, there is grounds for the comparison. In 1968, the country was torn by urban violence, civil unrest, and (domestic) terrorism. College campuses were hotbeds and protesting was all the rage.

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  • Is Social Justice Ideology Bad for You?

    Is Social Justice Ideology Bad for You?5

    In their universally acclaimed 2018 book The Coddling of the American Mind, Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff show that the youth mental health crisis has its origins in bad thinking on school campuses. For example, schools and universities often encourage students to see life as a struggle between good and bad people. As a result,

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  • Is Selfishness a Virtue?

    Is Selfishness a Virtue?0

    In her introduction to The Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand gives us a fairly clear understanding of her definition of selfishness. “Since selfishness is ‘concern with one’s own interests,’ the Objectivist ethics uses that concept in its exact and purest sense. It is not a concept that one can surrender to man’s enemies, nor to

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