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  • Are We All ‘Cat Persons’ Now? How Modern Dating Destroys Intimacy

    Are We All ‘Cat Persons’ Now? How Modern Dating Destroys Intimacy0

    In our previous Public Discourse essay on the #MeToo movement and hookup culture, we argued that careful attention to human experience can teach us important and surprising things about the meaning of sex. The same can be said for popular culture. It often tells the truth about sex, in spite of itself. Kristen Roupenian’s short story “Cat

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  • Are We Addicted to Our Screens? How Can We Break Free?

    Are We Addicted to Our Screens? How Can We Break Free?5

    Habitually reaching into our purses or pockets to check our messages, staying up through the wee hours of the morning scrolling on social media, hearing phantom phone vibrations—these are all sure signs of a screen addiction. Like most people in the world these days, I have struggled with controlling my use of screens and technology.

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  • Are We <i>Really</i> All in This Together?

    Are We Really All in This Together?0

    Acronyms—LOL, PIN, ASAP, CAPTCHA, RADAR, LASAR, SCUBA, and others that combine the initial letters of other words, the whole being pronounced as a single word—have become part of the English language. Let’s coin another one: WAITT (no, that’s not a misspelling of WAIT), an acronym for “We’re All in This Together.” The five-word phrase itself

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  • Are Video Games Killing Work for Young Men?

    Are Video Games Killing Work for Young Men?0

    One of the great concerns in advanced economies is unemployment among men, and especially young men. In the United States, millions of manufacturing jobs have disappeared with the advance of technological change, reducing the demand for certain types of labour. Graduates are faring better, and women seem more ready candidates for the service sector jobs

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  • Are Unmarried Cohabiting Parents as Effective as Married Ones?

    Are Unmarried Cohabiting Parents as Effective as Married Ones?0

    In recent years, it has become commonplace for young couples to live together and start a family before officially entering their names on the marriage register. But according to a recent chart compiled by Forbes, American couples are not the only ones choosing the cohabitating form of parenthood: “In countries around the world, increasing numbers

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  • Are Trigger Warnings Ruining Literature?

    Are Trigger Warnings Ruining Literature?0

    It was an ordinary lecture to first-year students, on “Women Writers and Modernism.” My brief was to introduce the different ways men and women responded to the social, intellectual and artistic challenges of the modernist movement. This is a subject about the literature of the early 20th century, but it tackles some difficult social questions

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