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  • How Americans Are Becoming ‘Idiots’… Literally

    How Americans Are Becoming ‘Idiots’… Literally0

    Get this: “In April 2015, Amazon’s best-selling book in the United States was not the recipient of a Booker Prize, a Nobel Prize, or a Pulitzer Prize. It was not even a work of literature; it was an adult coloring book by Johanna Basford. In August 2015, the American Art Therapy Association publicly endorsed “the

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  • How American Liberalism is Co-Opting Islam

    How American Liberalism is Co-Opting Islam0

    A persistent refrain of conservatives and liberal hawks has been that liberals and leftists are soft on Islam. This theme dominated Nick Cohen’s What’s Left, Andrew Anthony’s The Fall-Out, Paul Berman’s Flight of the Intellectuals, and much of the late life of Christopher Hitchens. There is, of course, a great deal of truth to that contention. It is unimaginable

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  • How America’s Gun Culture Cultivates Civic Virtue

    How America’s Gun Culture Cultivates Civic Virtue0

    “It is through the enjoyment of a dangerous freedom that Americans learn the art of reducing freedom’s perils.” —Alexis de Tocqueville Many people are often surprised to learn that I am a gun owner and firm defender of the Second Amendment. After all, I, a first-generation Chinese-American immigrant, do not fit the stereotype of the

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  • How America Let the Culture of Disrespect Get Out of Hand

    How America Let the Culture of Disrespect Get Out of Hand0

    By now, you have likely seen the California McDonald’s fight that is making its way around the internet. As Yahoo explains, the fight began when a young mother asked several teens to leave the McDonald’s play area where her two young children were playing. The teens did not take kindly to this request, challenging the mother

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  • How America Grew Bored with Love

    How America Grew Bored with Love0

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  • How America Became Class Conscious

    How America Became Class Conscious0

    I recently shared some statistics from Charles Murray’s book Coming Apart that illustrate some of the fundamental social and cultural changes that occurred in America during the last half-century. One fascinating bit of data I did not share touches on U.S. poverty levels, as well as American perceptions of poverty. In 1963, roughly 20 percent

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