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No, Ladies, We Cannot Have It All 4
- Culture, Family
- January 15, 2024
The phrase “having it all” came from the title of a 1982 book written by Helen Gurley Brown, then editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine. As Antoinette Lattouf, writing in The Guardian in early 2023, put it, this self-help book for women focused on “money, sex, diet, exercise, and appearance.” Notably, it made no mention of children
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Hollywood Baffled About 20 Percent Decline in Moviegoing Since 2019 7
- Culture, Entertainment, Featured
- January 15, 2024
The Hollywood Reporter recently published an article warning of an “existential crisis” in Tinseltown, as domestic box office sales remain more than 20 percent down compared with 2019, the last year before the great COVID-19 panic decimated moviegoing. The report read: One out of every five moviegoers has vanished since the pandemic, according to research
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7 Ridiculous Examples of Government Waste in 2023 3
- Economics, Politics
- January 15, 2024
Almost nobody doubts that the federal government wastes a lot of money. Every day we hear stories of fraud, mismanagement, and misplaced priorities that cost taxpayers millions, and sometimes billions, of dollars. But just how much money is wasted? In his annual Festivus report—named after the fictional Seinfeld holiday—Senator Rand Paul tallies up some of the most
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Henry Ford’s Pro-Family Initiative That Rocked the World 2
- Economics, Family, History
- January 12, 2024
One hundred and ten years ago this week, a Motor City magnate put his money where his mouth was. On 5 January 1914, Ford Motor Company doubled the wages of employees to $5.00 per day, incentivising assembly-line work. It was Henry Ford’s idea. The Detroit Journal’s headline “Henry Ford Gives Ten Million in 1914 Profits to His
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A Missing Link: Our Border Catastrophe and the Failures of Corporate Media 3
- Culture, Featured, Politics
- January 12, 2024
Who, what, and where, by what helpe, and by whose, Why, how and when, doe many things disclose. — The Arte of Rhetorique, 1560 In “The Five Ws (and H) of Journalism,” Richard Nordquist notes that, in the above lines, English rhetorician Thomas Wilson devised the formula that later became standard in journalism. “Who,” “What,”
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Friday Comic: The Hero’s Journey 0
- Entertainment
- January 12, 2024
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Patriotism, Gratitude, and Western Civilization 3
- Culture, Western Civilization
- January 11, 2024
Many years ago, I attended West Forsyth High School near Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Though our sports teams then were generally mediocre, at basketball and football games our cheerleaders would inevitably break into a chant: “WEST IS BEST! WEST IS BEST!” That cheer came back to me while reading “The Decline and Fall of the Descendants
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Imagined Virtue: What News Can Make Us Miss 4
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy
- January 11, 2024
Clicking on my car radio, I hear two voices discussing—vehemently—a federal government conflict. Opening my podcast app, I find an entire category dedicated to “News,” or informing listeners of the latest scandals or controversies. And scrolling through YouTube, I find a host of suggestions for dogmatic political commentary. The mere volume of news outlets, encompassing
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Science Has a Major Fraud Problem. Here’s Why Government Funding Is the Likely Culprit 4
- Science
- January 11, 2024
President Biden’s 2024 budget includes over $210 billion directed toward federal research and development, an approximately $9 billion increase from 2023 funding. That might not sound particularly bad—after all, who doesn’t like science and innovation? But, although seemingly noble, the billions pumped into the US government’s National Science Foundation don’t always translate into finding cures for
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No, Ladies, We Cannot Have It All 4