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  • Southwest Meltdown: End Airline Corporate Welfare

    Southwest Meltdown: End Airline Corporate Welfare0

    Southwest Airlines experienced an enormous meltdown over the Christmas holiday week last month, cancelling thousands of flights, and losing track of—or outright losing—countless pieces of luggage. The airline was full of excuses, of course. As has become fashionable for government and corporate screw-ups, airline management attempted to blame Covid for staffing problems. Southwest also blamed

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  • Southern-Fried Hebrew: Surprises and Lessons From a DNA Test

    Southern-Fried Hebrew: Surprises and Lessons From a DNA Test2

    My name is Dr. Bob Dunn, and I come from Atlanta, the land of Chick-Fil-a, Coca Cola, and Braves baseball. I grew up in an evangelical Christian home and my family was from traditional British Isle stock and had been in the South since before America’s Founding. Or so I thought. One day my wife

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  • South Korea Started Shrinking in 2020

    South Korea Started Shrinking in 20200

    It is usual for the two East Asian giants, China and Japan, to hog the demographic headlines, especially those bearing bad news. China is struggling with the fallout of its self-inflicted one child policy disaster, while Japan is in a sustained demographic decline. But sandwiched between these two is a smaller nation with a similar

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  • Soundtrack for a Civil War

    Soundtrack for a Civil War0

    • September 24, 2015

    What is it about music that it can so perfectly capture our sentiments? For anyone who has watched Ken Burns’ series on the Civil War, you probably would recognize ‘Ashokan Farewell’ as the melody played through much of it. Here it is put to images from the war:  What the combatants themselves would have chosen

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  • Sound Reason Is Missing in Action

    Sound Reason Is Missing in Action0

    In a recent article for Intellectual Takeout, I looked at possible explanations for an apparent decline in IQ averages in Europe and America. Since then, I have begun to wonder whether this drop in intelligence might play a part in some of the goofy programs coming out of Washington D.C. of late, and in our inability to exchange

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  • Soulmate Marriage: An Unrealistic Goal?

    Soulmate Marriage: An Unrealistic Goal?1

    A recent edition of the NPR program “Hidden Brain” asked an increasingly prevalent question: “When Did Marriage Become So Hard?” The idea that marriage is difficult is underscored by the fact that nearly 40 to 50 percent of all marriages end in divorce. And although divorce rates are supposedly falling, the numbers of divorced couples

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