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  • Cohabitation: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places?

    Cohabitation: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places?0

    • November 8, 2019

    Pew Research recently released a new study on the state of marriage and cohabitation in the U.S. I boldly flew in for a look. I should have braced myself first. Like so many other time-tested practices these days, marriage is in a state of decline. Meanwhile, cohabitation rates continue to rise. As the chart below

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  • Cohabitation is Socially Acceptable, But is it Socially Beneficial?

    Cohabitation is Socially Acceptable, But is it Socially Beneficial?0

    In case you hadn’t noticed, acceptance of cohabitation has seen a rapid increase in recent years. According to NPR, “more than 65 percent of first marriages start out” in cohabitation, and “young adults born after 1980 are more likely to cohabit than any previous generation was at the same stage of life.” But while cohabitation

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  • Cognitive Dissonance: The Psychological Phenomenon that Explains Why Intellectuals Can’t Stop Believing Socialism Works

    Cognitive Dissonance: The Psychological Phenomenon that Explains Why Intellectuals Can’t Stop Believing Socialism Works0

    The graveyard of failed socialist states is vast. In recent decades, examples are replete: from the collapse of the Soviet Union, to the horrors in North Korea, to the recent nightmare in Venezuela, the evidence looms large and tragic. Yet among its faithful, there is a persistent belief that “real” socialism does work. (G. A.

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  • Cognitive Dissonance Is the Glue of the Democratic Party

    Cognitive Dissonance Is the Glue of the Democratic Party0

    The Democratic leadership and its “woke” leftist allies have been held together thus far by their hatred of both the right and of normal people. But the glue that binds that coalition is starting to dissolve, Chronicles editor-in-chief Paul Gottfried argues in a recent article for American Greatness. He suggests that the conflicting interests and loyalties of the intersectional left, with

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  • Coexistence or Cold War with China?

    Coexistence or Cold War with China?0

    “The United States acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. The United States… does not challenge that position.” Thus did President Nixon, in the Shanghai Communique of 1972, accept China’s territorial claim to the island of Taiwan.

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  • CNN’s Worst Marketing Idea?

    CNN’s Worst Marketing Idea?4

    Over the weekend, I attended a conservative think tank’s annual dinner. Before hitting the reception, I made my way to the restroom. Humorously, standing next to one of Minnesota’s candidates for governor, we found ourselves staring down at a CNN logo on a urine screen sitting at the bottom of each urinal. Another man walked in while

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