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  • How Did the Presidential Campaign Get to Be so Long?

    How Did the Presidential Campaign Get to Be so Long?0

    Four hundred and thirty-two days prior to the election and 158 days before the Iowa caucus, millions of Americans will tune in for the second round of Democratic debates. If this seems like a long time to contemplate the candidates, it is. By comparison, Canadian election campaigns average just 50 days. In France, candidates have

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  • How Did Celibacy Become Mandatory for Priests?

    How Did Celibacy Become Mandatory for Priests?0

    Priestly celibacy, or rather the lack of it, is in the news. There have been allegations of sex orgies, prostitution and pornography against Catholic clerics in Italy. On March 8, Pope Francis suggested, in an interview with a German newspaper, Die Zeit, that the Catholic Church should discuss the tradition of celibacy in light of

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  • How Did Ancient Humans Interpret Eclipses?

    How Did Ancient Humans Interpret Eclipses?0

    For the vast majority of history, people freaked out about eclipses. Ancient peoples in particular often could not rationally explain eclipses. Unsurprisingly, it was not uncommon to say the eerie, celestial phenomena foretold doom: floods, pestilence and famine. The earliest record of an eclipse we have comes from clay tablets unearthed from the ancient Sumerian

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  • How Did American Schools Get Like This?

    How Did American Schools Get Like This?0

    For much of America, the Midwest is a part of deplorable flyover country filled with hick farmers and blue-collar manufacturers who somehow conspired with the Russians to steal the 2016 election and put Donald Trump into the White House. Those of us who live here know that the Midwest is far from immune to the

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  • How Did America Become a Nation of Slobs?

    How Did America Become a Nation of Slobs?38

    One evening in early April I was waiting for my ten-year-old twin granddaughters to finish their indoor soccer practice when a girl their age approached me and said, “Your coat looks really nice.” It was a wet, chilly evening, and I was wearing a London Fog given me thirty years ago by an elderly widow

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  • How Did America Become a Nation of Slobs?

    How Did America Become a Nation of Slobs?8

    One evening in early April I was waiting for my ten-year-old twin granddaughters to finish their indoor soccer practice when a girl their age approached me and said, “Your coat looks really nice.”   It was a wet, chilly evening, and I was wearing a London Fog given me thirty years ago by an elderly

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