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What Babies Learn By Watching Grownups Stick With a Challenge 0
- Family
- September 22, 2017
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G.K Chesterton, Modern Ethics, and the Anti-Smoking Crusade 0
- Culture
- September 22, 2017
We’ve all seen them, haven’t we? I mean those ugly shots of lungs featured in anti-smoking campaigns. It’s not likely that a cigar-smoking G.K. Chesterton ever caught this particular act. After all, in his day tobacco was still a century away from achieving its current—and much vaunted—status as the great moral evil of our time.
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Study: Liberals Deny Science just as much as Conservatives 0
- Science
- September 22, 2017
Liberals often lament that conservatives are “deniers” of this-or-that scientific result, such as evolution or anthropocentric climate change. And there is some truth to this charge. Many Americans who identify as conservatives do deny that most species today originated from earlier ones via natural selection of genetic mutations, or that human carbon emissions have anything
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What NFL Players Get Wrong about America 0
- Culture
- September 22, 2017
It started with Colin Kaepernick, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback who, before he was let go, made headlines for taking a knee during the playing of the national anthem to protest perceived wrongs against racial minorities. Then other NFL players followed suit. Now even eight year-old football players in Cahokia, IL, are getting into the
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Narcissism: 16 Behavioral Signs Of It 0
- Culture
- September 22, 2017
In his classic work The Culture of Narcissism (1979), Christopher Lasch proposed that American culture “gives increasing prominence and encouragement to narcissistic traits.” If Lasch’s thesis is correct—and he makes a very compelling case—then it seems reasonable to assume that many of us might possess narcissistic traits or behaviors, perhaps entirely unbeknownst to ourselves. It
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Mel Brooks: Political Correctness is Stupid and Killing Comedy 0
- Culture
- September 22, 2017
There’s a lot of things that have changed since a little thing called “political correctness” pervaded our culture. What you can wear, what you can eat, what you can celebrate… even the history that we teach in school has been influenced by the culture of political correctness. But it’s also hampering another aspect of life
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What Babies Learn By Watching Grownups Stick With a Challenge 0