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The NY Times Says Intensive Parenting Is Best, But…2
- Family, MomThink
- February 26, 2024
“Parents Are Highly Involved in their Adult Children’s Lives and Fine With It,” declared the front page of The New York Times. Added the subhead: “New surveys show that today’s intensive parenting has benefits, not just risks, and most young adults seem happy with it, too.” Is that true? “Intensive parenting” is best, and kids
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Lessons in Humanity From Prehistoric People 4
- Family, Culture, History, MomThink
- February 23, 2024
In ancient cultures some children were born with Down syndrome and other genetic disorders. But our prehistoric forebears treated them with great respect. This is the conclusion reached by an international team of researchers who studied the DNA of human remains in ancient burial sites. Their global study involved screening DNA from about 10,000 ancient
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Alfred Tennyson, Male Friendship, and the Gay Appropriation of History 14
- Culture, Featured, Literature
- February 23, 2024
It has become fashionable in academia and pop culture to claim that historical figures previously assumed to be heterosexual were actually homosexual. The trend has taken root to such a degree that the cases crop up with a dull predictability, and great authors seem particularly vulnerable to having their sexual identities rewritten by modern scholars.
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Friday Comic: Prayers 0
- Entertainment
- February 23, 2024
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Schumpeter on How Higher Education Wrecks Freedom 1
- Education
- February 22, 2024
A book that pays high returns for decades with endless insights is Joseph Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1943). It is not a systematic treatise. It’s more of a series of observations about huge problems that vexed those times and ours. Many are informed by economics. Some by history. Some by sociology and culture. Schumpeter’s outlook
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The Cancelled Black Harvard Professor Who Found No Racial Bias in Police Shootings 6
- Education, Featured, Politics
- February 22, 2024
Unless you have lived under a rock for the last four years, you will be very familiar with the claim that black Americans are disproportionately victims of police shootings compared with their white counterparts. But a nearly eight-year-old study challenging this narrative is enjoying renewed attention thanks to a recent high-profile interview of the study’s
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The NY Times Says Intensive Parenting Is Best, But…2