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  • The Extraordinary Joys of Ordinary Family Life

    The Extraordinary Joys of Ordinary Family Life4

    Our world of hookup culture, abortion on demand, and fading traditional family structure is pushing a rising number of young people away from wanting to have children. Even married couples are choosing to remain childless, citing everything from financial freedom to environmental concerns. This drastic decision is often made from a place of fear and

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  • The Exploitative Reality of Surrogacy and Egg Donation

    The Exploitative Reality of Surrogacy and Egg Donation0

    Over the last two years, I noticed my Facebook and Instagram feeds filling with ads urging me to donate my eggs or to become a surrogate. At first I laughed it off. But the more ads I saw, the more concerned and uncomfortable I felt. So, I started a small experiment. Every time I saw

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  • The Exodus From U.S. Cities Is Gaining Speed, New Census Data Show

    The Exodus From U.S. Cities Is Gaining Speed, New Census Data Show6

    America’s largest metro areas saw massive declines in population, new U.S. Census Bureau data show. Three of the top five metros that saw sharp declines between July 1, 2020, and July 1, 2021 were in California. Leading the way was the Los Angeles-Long Beach metropolitan area, which lost 176,000 residents, a 1.3 percent drop. Next

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  • The Executioner’s Song: The Best Nonfiction Novel I’ve Read

    The Executioner’s Song: The Best Nonfiction Novel I’ve Read0

    My wife’s sister, we’ll call her Wendy, is a fellow book worm. She likes to pick my brain for recommendations whenever we drop in around the holidays to enjoy their hospitality on “the farm.” (They grow cranberries on a spread in central Wisconsin.)   Suggesting books is a job I relish, but of late it

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  • The Exceptional Catalog of American Polling Failures

    The Exceptional Catalog of American Polling Failures0

    The question looms in nearly every U.S. presidential election, even in this year’s race: Could the polls be wrong? If they are, they likely will err in unique fashion. The history of election polling says as much. That history tells of no greater polling surprise than what happened in 1948, when President Harry Truman defied

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  • The Evolution of King Arthur

    The Evolution of King Arthur3

    The early trailers for Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) were released last (northern) summer, which means my favourite season in life as a medievalist academic is coming: the season of The Truth About King Arthur. It doesn’t matter if the movie itself is good or bad: the question I will be

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