When I was a child, my mother and I would take the Long Island Railroad to Brooklyn to see relatives a few times a year. My grandfather was always outside in front of the apartment house in Park Slope, where he and my aunts and uncles lived. Upon seeing him, I would run down the
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Pornography websites get more traffic in the U.S. than the sum total traffic of Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Pinterest, Zoom, and Netflix. And these days, most people are exposed to porn by the time they’re 13. More than ever, pornography today pushes the boundary of what’s acceptable, normalizing behaviors once seen as reprehensible. Playboy is not
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Even as price inflation slows and we move past June’s peak, progressives continue to push the concept of “greedflation”—that this year’s price inflation is caused by corporate greed and price gouging. This is inaccurate, based on bad economics, and it blames a consequence of the problem rather than the problem itself. If we want to address the real issues
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There are probably more than a few Americans who can remember when NPR endeavored to speak to and for a much larger piece of the public than it does now. I was once a regular listener. This was way back in the days of Garrison Keillor, who was unpersoned by #MeToo a few years back, and
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The lords of lockdown barely escaped their worst possible fate, namely that the topic would become the national and international source of scandal that it should be. And let’s add the vaccine mandates here too: even if such had been morally justified, which they were not, there is absolutely no practical reason for them at
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Dad wore his heart on his sleeve sometimes. A born-again Christian and father of 12, he had size 13½ feet that were good for booting his eight sons into line. Dad was a hard disciplinarian, so seeing him cry surprised me, but he could get misty hearing a sermon at church or watching The Sound
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