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  • Why Corporate America’s Retreat From Social Activism Is Good for Everyone

    Why Corporate America’s Retreat From Social Activism Is Good for Everyone1

    In January, Axios reported a developing trend in corporate America: corporations across the United States were backing away from DEI, which had become a “minefield” for companies. Following a multi-year boom in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion space following the 2020 death of George Floyd, corporations were pulling back on DEI initiatives. The risks were too great

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  • Why cooking from scratch is still important

    Why cooking from scratch is still important1

    When I was in 6th grade, my mother bravely invited 10 of my friends to a local church kitchen and taught them how to make apple pie. If such a scenario leaves you envisioning a scene of mass destruction, you’d be close. After all, our casualties that day only included one upset bowl of cinnamon

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  • Why Conservatives Should Care More about Cities

    Why Conservatives Should Care More about Cities0

    It’s a time-honoured tradition in America, since the days of Jefferson and even before, to decry the evils of city life. One sees a great deal of this tradition in modern conservative discourse. Small-town America is the ‘real America’, the unpretentious, authentic, hardworking America with healthy values, and the big cities are full of crime

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  • Why Conservatives Can’t Understand Liberals (and Vice Versa)

    Why Conservatives Can’t Understand Liberals (and Vice Versa)0

    It’s probably important to preface any conversation on morality by noting that humans often struggle—mightily—to agree on what morality is. While it’s a thorny topic to define and explain, it would of course be foolish to avoid the pursuit of moral truths for this reason.  Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia

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  • Why Conservatives Are Losing – Part 2

    Why Conservatives Are Losing – Part 20

    In 1981, philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre published his magisterial After Virtue, in which he advocated that the West return to a more coherent understanding of morality. In his 2007 prologue to the third edition, MacIntyre acknowledged one important shortcoming of his project: “I had now learned from Aquinas that my attempt to provide an account of

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  • Why Conservatives and Liberals Respond to COVID-19 Differently

    Why Conservatives and Liberals Respond to COVID-19 Differently0

    In a 2008 TED Talk, psychologist Jonathan Haidt said the worst idea in psychology is the notion that humans are born as a “blank slate.” Like the cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker, Haidt was rejecting the notion that the human mind is a blank slate at birth, an idea that can be traced to thinkers from

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