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  • Are Women Rejecting True Girl Power?

    Are Women Rejecting True Girl Power?0

    G. K. Chesterton was politically incorrect well before the term had been invented and well before its potent force could have been imagined. This political incorrectness especially reared its head concerning the family and gender roles, as evidenced by a 1911 Illustrated London News essay on “suffrage and the family.” On the eve of the

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  • Four Reasons to Avoid Teaching Stranger Danger to Children

    Four Reasons to Avoid Teaching Stranger Danger to Children1

    Are you the parent of a young child? If so, I’m willing to bet that some well-intentioned person has sent you a YouTube video called Child Abduction (Social Experiment). I’ve been sent this video 5 times over the past several years, the most recent instance being last week. The video goes thus: a guy named

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  • Mayor Suggests Fine-Free Libraries So ‘Everyone Can Afford to Check Out a Book’

    Mayor Suggests Fine-Free Libraries So ‘Everyone Can Afford to Check Out a Book’0

    Early this spring I experienced something that has probably only happened to me once before: I had an overdue library book. Given that I was the girl in college who felt frantically behind on her homework if she wasn’t a week ahead in her assignments, this was a bit distressing. But, I gritted my teeth

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  • Love at First Sight: Is it Real?

    Love at First Sight: Is it Real?0

    For a lecture course I teach at Brown University called “Love Stories,” we begin at the beginning, with love at first sight.   To its detractors, love at first sight must be an illusion – the wrong term for what is simply infatuation, or a way to sugarcoat lust. Buy into it, they say, and

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  • Delayed Motherhood and the Body Beautiful

    Delayed Motherhood and the Body Beautiful2

    There are some who say children rob you of your youth. Perhaps this belief is even influencing the trend of Western women putting off having kids till later in life. Though the delaying of motherhood is explained by demographers in various other ways, it could also betray a kind of pathology in women, persuading them

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  • Facebook Flags, Censors NPR Report on Inflated Government School Shooting Statistics

    Facebook Flags, Censors NPR Report on Inflated Government School Shooting Statistics0

    Earlier this week, NPR reported on the high number of school shootings alleged by the U.S. Department of Education. The 240 school shootings detailed in the department’s report on the 2015-2016 school year was significantly higher than other estimates. So NPR, with the assistance of the non-profit group Child Trends, began doing what good journalists do: they collected

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