Twitter likes to vilify the large cookie-cutter suburban home with a garage bigger than the house itself. And surely this is in some way a symbol of a decadent, mobile society with little sense of place or community. But the American garage gets too much flack from even those on the right. The house on
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Summer has barely started and already it’s shaping up to be déjà vu of 2020’s Summer of Love. In case we’ve forgotten, the chaos spreading from the Los Angeles riots to other cities around the nation shows once again that we live in a divided culture, one that pits respect for law and order against
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The recent Trump-Musk altercation has brought bucketloads of commentary from both the left and the right. Their public feud has paved the way for everyone to leap into this phone-generated fracas of snark, one-liners, and denunciation. They gather round this brawl like kids at a schoolyard fight, with some shouting encouragement, others laughing as punches
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In a world where we are more connected than ever, people are also more lonely than ever. “Social” media is, ironically, conducive to antisocial behavior, including bullying, harassment, gambling, and pornography. Young people are facing loneliness and depression at much higher rates than their older counterparts, yet have more virtual “friends” than previous generations. Enter
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Once, when giving a talk to a room full of young men, I told them to consider asking their parents to hold them accountable for what they did on the internet. Guffaws rippled through the crowd. “Our parents? Is he serious?” It wasn’t that they couldn’t imagine limits being placed on their online activity. (As
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Tater tot casserole and other down-home meals are back on the American menu! That conclusion comes thanks to recent data from Campbell’s soup company, indicating that more people are cooking at home than they have in the last five years. The CNBC article making the announcement immediately connected this trend to a flailing economy, suggesting that
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