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  • Study Reveals How Parents May Help Children Weather the Culture Wars

    Study Reveals How Parents May Help Children Weather the Culture Wars0

    When Donald Trump was first elected for president, the news media began to ask how parents could best raise their children under the shadow of his leadership. TIME suggested parents teach their daughters to resist sexism. Jezebel insisted that parents raise sons by “refusing to engage in reductive binaries.” And the Huffington Post suggested that

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  • Study of National Differences requires Tough-Mindedness

    Study of National Differences requires Tough-Mindedness0

    Ruth Benedict was a cultural anthropologist enlisted during World War II to help American leadership better understand the cultural attitudes and thinking of the Japanese. In 1946 she published her findings and views on the topic in The Chrysanthemum and the Sword. While much of the book covers the Japanese, it also provides many nuggets

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  • Study of American History is Losing its Priority

    Study of American History is Losing its Priority0

    • October 22, 2014

    It was a news item that came and went with barely a ripple.  And yet, it should have set off sirens and red-light alarms all across the country. “America’s top liberal arts schools skip U.S. history,” the headline read. “Of the 29 top-ranked liberal arts colleges,” reported Fox News, “only the United States Air Force

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  • Study Linking Authoritarianism to Conservatives Retracted

    Study Linking Authoritarianism to Conservatives Retracted0

    Conservatives are from Mars, liberals are from Venus. So announced the headline of an article in The Atlantic back in 2012 that was based on a number of peer-reviewed studies. But are they really? The preferred narrative in academic and media circles would have you believe they are. Thus, in 2012, a study the article

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  • Study Finds That Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage Is Costing Jobs

    Study Finds That Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage Is Costing Jobs0

    In 2014, the uber-liberal Seattle City Council passed a law mandating that all businesses in the city raise their minimum wage to $15 by 2021. The most noted advocate of the law is the openly Socialist councilmember Kshama Sawant, who believes it will help “tackle the chasm of income inequality and social injustice.” The law

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  • Study Explains Best Way to Bond with Kids While Reading

    Study Explains Best Way to Bond with Kids While Reading0

    For many years now, my family has always tried to make some time over the holidays to sit down together and read old Christmas stories. The first memory I have of this tradition occurred when I was in early grade school. Even though it was past my bedtime and the rest of the family was

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