You might still believe that college is a great investment for nearly everyone. You might still hold to the view that a great education benefits the student and the whole of society. You might even agree with the politicians who are figuring out how to drive more people into college. Even if all that is
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This week, The Telegraph commented ona trend that’s been apparent for quite some time: about 90% of pregnancies involving a fetus diagnosed with Down’s Syndrome in Britain are aborted. The statistical picture in the U.S. is a bit more complicated, but even with all the academic qualifications, it’s clear that the majority are aborted. Some
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There are two main competing views about human nature in Western civilization. The first and most ancient is the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian view. Mutatis mutandis, it holds that men and women are born with a proclivity toward ignorance, are subject to many harmful passions (e.g. anger, envy, etc.), and need much training and work to
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European demographic decline has been a topic that has been canvassed a lot on this blog. Looking at our more recent posts this year, we have written about Italy’s demographic “apocalypse”, Hungary’s fight against depopulation, Europe’s dying villages, the migrant crisis, Romania’s longterm demographic decline, and Finland’s historically low birthrates. We even saw Lord Sack’s warning that we are seeing the fall of
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Ask many of today’s parents if they were required to do chores as a child and the answer will likely be yes – accompanied, of course, by a description of their least favorite job. But while 82 percent of today’s parents did chores as a child, only 28 percent of them expect the same out
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Amy Schumer seems like an unlikely critic of the sexual revolution. But in her new memoir, The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo, the often ribald comedian writes of her parents’ marriages (three apiece) and divorces in a way that reads like fodder for a Dr. Laura book about family values. “I’ve had UTIs that lasted
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