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  • How Parenting Got So Intense

    How Parenting Got So Intense4

    You can’t find a better explanation of the rise of helicopter parenting and how, when and why that morphed into “intensive parenting” than this New York Times podcast from a few weeks ago, inspired by the surgeon general’s report on parental burnout. Michael Barbaro, host of “The Daily,” interviews Claire Cain Miller, a Times reporter

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  • How Pagan Writings Convinced a Famous Atheist to Convert to Christianity

    How Pagan Writings Convinced a Famous Atheist to Convert to Christianity0

    Late last week, the New York Times reported on a new academic chair at the University of Miami. The chair will foster “the study of atheism, humanism and secular ethics,” and is thought to be the first of its kind in the nation. According to the Times, the establishment of such a chair reflects the

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  • How Packing the Supreme Court Would Endanger Liberty and Erode Our Constitutional Order

    How Packing the Supreme Court Would Endanger Liberty and Erode Our Constitutional Order0

    The Supreme Court has risen to the forefront of the November election. And, unfortunately, it may be no exaggeration to say that the future of the judiciary itself is at stake. Senate Republicans look set to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a qualified conservative jurist, to fill the seat left vacant by the late liberal

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  • How Our Society Treats Prisoners ‘Like Animals’

    How Our Society Treats Prisoners ‘Like Animals’0

    About 2.2 million people reside in the approximately 5,000 prisons sprinkled across the U.S. today, more than any country in the world. They’ve been put there for being found guilty of violating any number of laws that society has deemed important enough to send people away. But what is the ultimate purpose of the prison

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  • How Our Perception of Masculinity is Changing

    How Our Perception of Masculinity is Changing0

    In recent years, a mildly trending topic of discussion has been the question, “Where have all the men gone?” While there are a number of theories as to the answer, a British survey just released by YouGov may shed some light on the issue. Among other things, the survey asked participants about their impressions of

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  • How Our Culture of Artificiality Is Destroying Objective Reality

    How Our Culture of Artificiality Is Destroying Objective Reality3

    I believe it is possible to have common sense “educated” out of you, whether by formal schooling, by one’s culture, or both. When I was studying literature in college, professors would deride any literary interpretation that smelled of an “essentialist” view of morality, gender, race, or reality. What they meant by this fancy term (which

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