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  • The Religious Left May Be Poised for a Comeback

    The Religious Left May Be Poised for a Comeback0

    Decades ago, the organized “religious right” was politically very powerful. Such organizations as The Moral Majority and The Family Research Council formed vital parts of the “conservative movement.” During the Reagan years these organizations galvanized a very substantial segment of the Republican electoral coalition. While the religious right seems to have lost the intellectual coherence

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  • Most of America’s Rural Areas are Doomed to Decline

    Most of America’s Rural Areas are Doomed to Decline0

    Since the Great Recession, most of the nation’s rural counties have struggled to recover lost jobs and retain their people. The story is markedly different in the nation’s largest urban communities. I’m writing from Iowa, where every four years presidential hopefuls swoop in to test how voters might respond to their various ideas for fixing

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  • Journalism is Full of Alarmist Clickbait

    Journalism is Full of Alarmist Clickbait0

    Much of journalism is now alarmist clickbait or fearmongering. To attract viewers and readers, reporters make it seem like Nazis and white supremacists are everywhere. Daniel Greenfield provides an example taken from a much larger essay by a liberal mother whose 13-year-old son had temporarily drifted into the alt-right after being targeted by sexist administrators

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  • Distractions Don’t Have to Control You

    Distractions Don’t Have to Control You0

    Did you reach for your smartphone shortly after awaking? If so, 12 minutes later, you may reach for your smartphone again. If you are a typical smartphone user, you will check your phone 80 times today and feel anxiety if your phone is out of reach. Arguing that constant smartphone usage promises “fulfillment and excitement,”

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  • Why Good Books Are Better When You Talk About Them

    Why Good Books Are Better When You Talk About Them0

    What do you do when you finish reading with children, say, at bedtime? Perhaps what many parents do — just close the book, kiss your child goodnight, ruffle their hair, and turn out the light. To be sure, that emotionally intimate time of reading together is a precious experience — the pleasure of a good

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  • The Children at Play in Congress

    The Children at Play in Congress0

    “Where do the children play?” is the refrain from a 1970 Cat Stevens song in which the singer-songwriter warned about the dangers of skyscrapers, roads, and plans to the environment. Well, here we are, forty-nine years later, and children are still romping around playgrounds, parks, backyards, woods, and sandboxes. Oh, yes — and the halls

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