Take a look at the trend of births to unwed mothers in America since 1940: And now, more than half of all births to millennial women (of all races) in America take place out of wedlock. Should we be worried about this trend and the decline of child bearing within marriage? Well, statistically speaking, parents
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In the public mind, sex and gender are now separate, though the terms are often confused. Just to clarify, according to the dominant cultural narrative of our time sex (male or female) is biological while gender (masculine or feminine) is how one identifies. Logically, it gets very messy, especially when considered through the lens of
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There is a special drudgery to much of academic writing these days. If you think some of it is incomprehensible, it is. But to the writer and a select circle, you are too stupid to understand it. So which one is closer to the truth? Back in the 1990s, Denis Dutton, a respected philosopher out
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Are you tired? If the answer is yes, you’re likely not alone. The Washington Post recently reported that the average American gets about 1½ hours less sleep than the average American 50 years ago. Apparently, this lack of sleep has economic consequences: “Research out of Harvard has shown that, for the average worker, insomnia results
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The last paragraph of his renowned work After Virtue: “It is always dangerous to draw too precise parallels between one historical period and another; and among the most misleading of such parallels are those which have been drawn between our own age in Europe and North America and the epoch in which the Roman empire
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Rebecca Friedrichs had a rude awakening as a young student teacher. Concerned about the physically abusive teacher in the class next door, she asked her own master teacher what they should do about the abuse. The answer she got? “Nothing.” Finding that these children were in harm’s way because their teacher was protected by unions
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