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What’s Really Behind the Soaring Cost of Weddings 0
- Culture
- June 22, 2018
Talking with a friend the other day, she expressed frustration that she and her boyfriend weren’t engaged yet. Both have degrees, jobs and want to get married. When I suggested she and her beau take the leap, she shook her head. “Oh no,” she replied, “We don’t have the money right now, weddings are soooo
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Cruelty on the Border; Cruelty North of the Border 0
- Family
- June 22, 2018
Faced with a surge of illegal immigrants and asylum seekers on the Mexican border, the Trump Administration has implemented a controversial zero-tolerance policy. One effect of this is to separate parents from their children. The parents are referred for criminal prosecution and sent to a federal jail. The children, who are not allowed to accompany
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‘Bourgeois Dignity’: The Idea that Created the Modern World 0
- Economics
- June 22, 2018
When thinking about the astonishing improvement in living standards occurring over the last two centuries, one can’t help but wonder about the causes of such a radical transformation: what explains the unprecedented increase in income per capita that the world has experienced since 1800? To answer this question, one needs to look back at where it all
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Seattle Aiming to Become More Like Detroit 0
- Economics
- June 22, 2018
This article says “Seattle is struggling to find a path forward to deal with a crisis that’s exploded in recent years.” What is that crisis? An economic boom! The article says, “unemployment in the county is at 3%, the lowest in the state… Housing is becoming less affordable, leading to more homelessness. At the same
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Americans Are Increasingly Revealing Their Self-absorption in Their Clothing 0
- Culture
- June 22, 2018
Yesterday afternoon an email from an Intellectual Takeout reader arrived in my inbox, asking what I thought of the jacket Melania Trump wore to visit migrant children near the Mexican border. Having read a previous article I wrote on Melania’s fashion choices, this reader asked if I could weigh in with some thoughts. Pulling up
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Morality and Immigration: 4 Overlooked Stats Everyone Is Missing in the Border Crisis Debate 0
- Politics
- June 22, 2018
The humanitarian crisis unfolding on America’s southern border is a tragic scene. Reports state that Department of Health and Human Services has been taking in about 250 children per day in recent weeks as immigrants from South America—primarily from the nations of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras—pour into America. By August, the department could have
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What’s Really Behind the Soaring Cost of Weddings 0