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  • Does Party Affiliation Influence Marital Bliss?

    Does Party Affiliation Influence Marital Bliss?0

    • August 17, 2015

    Does your party affiliation influence your marital bliss? Today’s New York Times suggests that it may.   Reporting on a recent study by W. Bradford Wilcox, the NYT reports: “Among married people between the ages of 20 and 60, 67 percent of Republicans report being ‘very happy’ with their marriages. Among Democrats, the share was

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  • Does Parental Support for Gender Dysphoria Help Teens?

    Does Parental Support for Gender Dysphoria Help Teens?1

    Let’s try a thought experiment. What if your daughter were to believe that she is actually a Na’vi humanoid from the film Avatar? You are baffled. The Na’vi are ten feet tall and have blue skin and yellow eyes. Your daughter is five foot six inches tall and has olive skin and brown eyes. You suffer,

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  • Does Our Diversity Portend Disintegration?

    Does Our Diversity Portend Disintegration?0

    After nine people were shot to death by a public transit worker, who then killed himself in San Jose, the latest mass murder in America, California Governor Gavin Newsom spoke for many on the eve of this Memorial Day weekend. “What the hell is going on in the United States of America? What the hell

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  • Does Morality Depend on Religion?

    Does Morality Depend on Religion?0

    One of the signature issues defining today’s society is the changing attitudes on religion, God, and traditional Christianity. Evidence of this fluctuation was most recently seen in a Pew survey on morality. According to Pew, respondents were asked whether or not belief in God was necessary in order to live a moral life. As the

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  • Does It Pay to Graduate from an ‘Elite’ University? Not as Much as You’d Think

    Does It Pay to Graduate from an ‘Elite’ University? Not as Much as You’d Think0

    As the deadline for applications for mid-year admission to university approaches, prospective students face two important choices: what to study, and at which university. If past experience is any guide, places at the Group of Eight (Go8) universities will be in high demand. In 2017, the Go8 universities attracted the largest share of undergraduate applications

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  • Does it Pay to ‘Buy Local’?

    Does it Pay to ‘Buy Local’?0

    When I was a boy in Boonville, North Carolina, population 600 in the early 1960s, my mom used to take us shopping a couple of times a year in nearby Winston-Salem. Once I asked her why we didn’t shop there more often. The stores offered far more variety, and Winston was less than forty-five minutes

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