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  • Late Bloomers and the Benefits of Delayed Success

    Late Bloomers and the Benefits of Delayed Success0

    At a dinner party several years ago, a woman and I chatted about education and parenthood. I had just met her and when I told her about our unschooling approach to education that prioritizes self-directed learning, she was visibly perplexed. “Don’t you worry about outcomes?” she asked. Yes, I replied. I want my children to

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  • Collusion: It’s Not Unprecedented in American Politics

    Collusion: It’s Not Unprecedented in American Politics0

    The Trump-Russia collusion fiasco supposedly ended several weeks ago. For some reason, however, the whole collusion story continues to play like “The Song That Never Ends.” Now congressional Democrats and Attorney General Barr are picking up the refrain where Mueller left off. Add in President Trump’s occasional quips about the incident and collusion seems like something

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  • Winning the Culture War One Avocado Skirmish at a Time

    Winning the Culture War One Avocado Skirmish at a Time0

    In 1996, W.W. Norton & Company published Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip-Mining of American Culture. In this collection of essays, 23 writers came together to address culture and its “ominous slippage, a shift towards the bizarre, the third-rate, the purely opportunistic.” Contributors included well-known authors Joseph Epstein, Cynthia Ozick, Phillip Lopate, Armstrong Williams, and Heather

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  • The War on History Comes for George Washington

    The War on History Comes for George Washington0

    They finally came for George Washington. The perpetual war on history now has the father of our country in its sights as the San Francisco Board of Education considers removing a mural of Washington from a local school. If the board succeeds in politicizing Washington, whose legacy was once so secured and uniting that his home

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  • That Poll on Socialism Is Not as Alarming as It Seems

    That Poll on Socialism Is Not as Alarming as It Seems0

    Every poll needs a headline takeaway. This one was a heck of a thing to wake up to: “Four in 10 Americans Embrace Some Form of Socialism.” The poll comes from Gallup. It compares attitudes toward socialism today in the U.S. with a similar poll in 1942. Back 77 years ago, 25 percent of Americans

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  • Living Alone: More Common and More Unhealthy?

    Living Alone: More Common and More Unhealthy?0

    “It is not good that man should be alone.” And now a new study has suggested that living alone is correlated with having a mental disorder. Louis Jacob from the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines has concluded that living alone “is positively associated with common mental disorders, regardless of age or sex.” The study compared survey

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  • And the Most Sexually Satisfied Group of People Is…

    And the Most Sexually Satisfied Group of People Is…0

    Women are the happiest when they are in equality-loving, feminist-minded relationships, right? That’s the line we’re often told. But a recent report seems to suggest something different. Contemplating the role religion plays in the satisfaction levels of a marriage, the 2019 “World Family Map” surveys almost 10,000 men and women from around the world. These

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  • Why the Elites Look Down on Manual Labor

    Why the Elites Look Down on Manual Labor0

    Since the $15 minimum wage has become a major policy proposal in America, many politicians feel that certain forms of work are undignified. This became a controversial talking point when Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declared that New Yorkers deserve “dignified jobs” after a deal to build a second Amazon headquarters in Queens fell through. In another incident, the congresswoman

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  • Three Reasons Flawed Capitalism Is Still Better Than Perfect Socialism

    Three Reasons Flawed Capitalism Is Still Better Than Perfect Socialism0

    A video clip of a military vehicle driving headlong into a crowd of innocent civilians keeps replaying itself in my mind. This happened in ‘socialist’ Venezuela. This South American country was once one of the happiest and richest countries in the world. Today families eat their pets for dinner. Meanwhile, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, and probably

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