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  • Three Things I Have Learned From Living in Brazil

    Three Things I Have Learned From Living in Brazil0

    I live in Brazil. What image does that conjure up in your mind? Perhaps you think of pristine white beaches and coconut trees. Maybe your first thought is of the amazing soccer talent in this country. Maybe you are imagining a country populated by ridiculously good looking, surgically enhanced people. There’s a kernel of truth

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  • The Catholic Church and Illegal Immigration

    The Catholic Church and Illegal Immigration5

    At the age of 40, I converted to Catholicism. A friend of mine at the time, also Catholic, told me her rule when entering the confessional booth: “Be brief, be blunt, and be gone.” I’ll be following that advice about brevity and bluntness in this column. Most readers know of the sexual scandals of some

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  • Poverty Stats Greatly Overstate How Many Americans Are Destitute

    Poverty Stats Greatly Overstate How Many Americans Are Destitute0

    While pressing her agenda to expand means-tested welfare programs, Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is claiming that the federal government’s poverty statistics vastly undercount the number of Americans who are “destitute.” In reality, the exact opposite is true because those statistics omit a broad range of government benefits, charity, and unreported income. When these are counted, the poorest fifth of U.S. households consume five

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  • Modern Feminism’s Hated Enemy: Womanhood

    Modern Feminism’s Hated Enemy: Womanhood0

    • January 30, 2020

    Women across the West are under attack. Our enemy is not the infamous “patriarchy,” allegedly scheming to undermine us at every turn. Nor is it pregnancy, with its physical discomforts and emotional tribulations. Even children are blameless here, no matter how much their arrival can shift careers or thwart travel plans. No, the culprit is

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  • E.B. White’s Forgotten Story About the Tyranny of Good Intentions

    E.B. White’s Forgotten Story About the Tyranny of Good Intentions0

    E.B. White, the author of Charlotte’s Web and co-author of The Elements of Style, once wrote a story that aptly demonstrates the folly of central planning. White, a Maine farmer who wrote for The New Yorker and Harper’s, saw the story turned into an animated short, which he narrated 36 years after its publication. In “The Family that Dwelt Apart” – published in The New

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  • Violence by Women Against Men Is Rising in the UK

    Violence by Women Against Men Is Rising in the UK0

    Domestic violence by women toward family members has risen twice as fast as those by men in the United Kingdom. According to statistics obtained by the Sunday Telegraph under freedom of information legislation, female perpetrators now account for 28 percent of cases of domestic violence – compared to 19 percent a decade ago.  In a disturbing column in The Telegraph Celia

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  • Reddit Is a Window Into the American Nightmare

    Reddit Is a Window Into the American Nightmare0

    The Internet, among other things, is a compendium of human nature; an emergent portrait of everything that we are. Discussion forums in particular, most especially Reddit, are an endless encyclopedia encompassing all of humanity’s creativity, kindness, brutality, eccentricity, and boredom. Reddit can occasionally inspire, and the right corners of the site can teach you a

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  • Not the School We Knew: Six Facts About American Education

    Not the School We Knew: Six Facts About American Education0

    Most of us have our own life experiences to draw from when thinking about school, but things have changed a little (or a lot!) since we were last in a classroom. Imagine your neighbor Caroline said her son loves the magnet elementary school he switched to in August. You might be perplexed as images of

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  • Kobe Bryant’s ‘Letter to My Younger Self’ Holds a Lesson for Us All

    Kobe Bryant’s ‘Letter to My Younger Self’ Holds a Lesson for Us All0

    After his storied NBA career but before his tragic death at the age of 41, Kobe Bryant wrote a letter to himself. His 17-year-old self, to be precise. By this time, Bryant had accumulated five NBA Championship rings and a net worth of $680 million. But it wasn’t just material things Bryant had acquired. The

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