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The Secret to Having Model Manners 0
- Culture
- March 7, 2019
One day early last summer, we pulled our Alcuin Interns out of their normal work routine at Intellectual Takeout and informed them that they would be having a professional development day. This professional development involved going to a fancy club in downtown Minneapolis and taking a course in business etiquette. Knowing the instructor and having
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Is a Happy Marriage Just a Matter of Genes?0
- Culture
- March 7, 2019
What’s the secret of a happy and enduring marriage? According to a team from the Yale School of Public Health, it could be the genes of husband and wife. In a paper published last week in the journal PLOS One, it reported that when at least one partner had a genetic variation within the oxytocin
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Lawmakers in Hawaii Propose Repealing Second Amendment 0
- Politics
- March 7, 2019
Legislators in Hawaii, which has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the United States, moved this week to bring their concerns about the Second Amendment to the national level. In Senate Concurrent Resolution (SCR) No. 42, introduced Tuesday, Democratic lawmakers assert that in light of the numerous tragic mass shootings at schools, work places,
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Democratic Party Supports Socialism, Poll Says 0
- Philosophy
- March 7, 2019
64 percent of registered voters say the Democratic Party supports socialism, reports The Hill: Nearly two-thirds of registered voters in a Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll survey released exclusively to The Hill believe that the Democratic Party supports socialism. Sixty-four percent of respondents said that they believe the Democratic Party backs such an economic system, while 36
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Are We All ‘Cat Persons’ Now? How Modern Dating Destroys Intimacy 0
- Culture
- March 6, 2019
In our previous Public Discourse essay on the #MeToo movement and hookup culture, we argued that careful attention to human experience can teach us important and surprising things about the meaning of sex. The same can be said for popular culture. It often tells the truth about sex, in spite of itself. Kristen Roupenian’s short story “Cat
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The Real Problem with Today’s Discourse 0
- Culture
- March 6, 2019
Ask a dozen people and you will probably get a dozen different answers for what is wrong with public discourse in America today. It’s the Republicans. It’s the Democrats. It’s the Russians, the Social Justice Warriors, the Millennials, the Baby Boomers, social media, lack of education, lack of opportunity, the list goes on. Whatever the
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The Secret to Having Model Manners 0