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Should Life Be Happy or Meaningful?0
- Culture
- October 20, 2016
It’s the never-ending question – even if it is rather a subconscious one. What makes for a good life? We all strive for happiness, but does that do the trick? According to this article from Time, the type of life we are after is one that is meaningful, not happy. Does that indicate that people
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Women Still Need Men 0
- Culture
- October 20, 2016
A favorite modern pastime seems to be analyzing the controversial topic of gender relations, past and present. There are editorials aplenty delving into the nature of misogyny, the historical reign of patriarchy, and the rise of female empowerment in the modern age. Hollywood follows this trend, using period pieces in particular to highlight “modern” female
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C.S. Lewis: 3 Reasons Why Students Should Read Old Books 1
- Culture
- October 20, 2016
In the last couple years, I’ve written a handful of posts on how the school reading lists of today compare with those of a hundred years ago. While there are often many differences between current and past reading lists, one of the most glaring is that modern lists are heavily weighted with recently written titles.
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‘Unhappily Unmarrieds’ – Are There More Than We Realize?0
- Culture
- October 20, 2016
We often hear today how many young people are happy with their single status. They’re enjoying traveling, pouring themselves into their graduate degree or new job, and living life with a partner that they may or may not get married to. From all their talk, life is good. In fact, someone who says the opposite
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We the People Don’t Need a President’s Plan 0
- History
- October 20, 2016
Hillary Clinton has a “plan.” I live in a “battleground state” so Clinton shared her plan with me in commercials, over and over and over again, through Saturday afternoon college football. Clinton’s plan is to spend more taxpayer money. Her spending initiatives include free college tuition for students in families making under $125,000 a year,
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Maybe Liberals Are Just Better Utilitarians 0
- Philosophy
- October 20, 2016
We keep hearing that conservatism in America is in crisis, that its messages don’t resonate, that it continues to lose political ground. These woes are typically ascribed the conservative movement’s lack of a dominant narrative. But I actually think conservatism does have a dominant narrative. In fact, it’s the same dominant narrative of liberalism. The
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