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  • Why Do People Mostly Stop Learning After College?

    Why Do People Mostly Stop Learning After College?7

    Why is it that, upon finishing college and entering the workforce, the vast majority of people seem to just stop learning? Is education a period of your life to be gotten over with, a burden that, once borne, is to be set aside for better things? This certainly seems to be the way we think

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  • Why Do People Become Communists, and Why Do They Stick With It?

    Why Do People Become Communists, and Why Do They Stick With It?0

    For as long as I can remember, I’ve puzzled about why people become communists. I have no doubt about why someone would stop being one. After all, we have a century of evidence of the murder, famine, and general destruction caused by the idea. Ignoring all this takes a special kind of willful blindness to

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  • Why Do Parents Have Trouble Teaching Children Respect?

    Why Do Parents Have Trouble Teaching Children Respect?0

    Kids are hard work. Anyone who has spent even a small amount of time around children knows this. So it’s no surprise that parents are eager to get away and spend some time by themselves. Yet we also have this modern phenomenon of parents who want to keep their kids with them, even while doing

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  • Why Do Older Women Criticize Young Mothers?

    Why Do Older Women Criticize Young Mothers?0

    Intergenerational feuding seems to be inherent to human nature. Older people complain about “kids these days.” Younger people, in turn, believe their elders don’t grasp the realities of modern life. A recent study traced the earliest recorded complaint about the younger generation’s supposed laziness and lack of respect to the year 624 BC. The contemporary iteration of

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  • Why do Muslims seem to be involved in more violence?

    Why do Muslims seem to be involved in more violence?1

    Other than Israel and a few clusters of Christians, the Middle East and parts of Africa are dominated by Islam, though with various internal divisions. Over recent decades, much terrorism and violence has become associated with the region. Is it reasonable to think the region is more violent than the rest of the world? And

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  • Why Do Mothers Feel So Guilty?

    Why Do Mothers Feel So Guilty?0

    For those who have read my writings for any length of time, it’s probably not hard to realize that I enjoy topics related to family, children, and parenting. So when a headline from The Washington Post about a guilty mother came across my desk, I naturally took a second look. The article describes the experiences

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