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What Early Christian Hermits Can Teach Us About Being Alone 0
- Culture
- February 8, 2018
In today’s world, loneliness seems to have reached epidemic proportions. Countless studies have highlighted the serious and negative impact that loneliness has on our health, our sense of well-being, and our ability to thrive in an increasingly chaotic world. Most recently, the urgency of the problem led the U.K. to appoint a minister for loneliness.
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Viktor Frankl’s Guide to Living a Life of Meaning 0
- History
- February 8, 2018
Many Americans find their lives devoid of meaning; up to 40 percent of Americans have “not discovered a satisfying life purpose.” Without purpose can anyone truly live a full, happy life? As Bill Murray discovered in his classic comedy Groundhog Day, a life focused on hedonic pleasures won’t lead to happiness. In his book Life
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The Persistence of Memory and #MeToo 0
- Politics
- February 8, 2018
The recent revelations about Harvey Weinstein have precipitated hundreds of allegations of sexual abuse. Many of the complainants are now adults, even middle-aged. But most of the alleged events took place when the victims were young – teenagers or even children. One of Weinstein’s accusers recounted events that occurred some twenty years previously; another accused
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Let Us Eradicate Poverty, Not Demolish Wealth 0
- Economics
- February 8, 2018
By the time you finish reading this article, some 600 people from all over the world will have escaped poverty. In 1990, 35 percent of the world population lived in extreme poverty. Today, that figure has fallen to 10.7 percent, according to the World Bank. In 1987, there were 660 million poor people in China. After its economy
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College Students Rip Obama Quotes… When Told They Are Trump’s 0
- Education
- February 8, 2018
Campus Reform journalist Cabot Phillips recently performed an interesting experiment. He visited John Jay College in New York City to get student reactions to President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address. But instead of reading lines from Trump’s speech, he selected a handful of quotes from Barack Obama’s State of the Union: “We
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Treating Gender Dysphoria with Hormone Treatments Carries Risks 0
- February 7, 2018
Several important new studies on the serious risks to young women for depression and suicide from the use of hormonal contraceptives should be presented to male youth and adults who are considering or who are using hormones in preparation for sexual reassignment surgery. While this risk of depression and suicide has not been proven yet
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Professor Publishes—then Deletes—Tweet Accusing Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist of Being a ‘Russian Asset’0
- Education
- February 7, 2018
Less than five years after winning a Pulitzer Prize for exposing surveillance abuses in U.S. intelligence agencies, Glenn Greenwald increasingly finds himself accused of being a stooge of Vladimir Putin. The latest accusation comes from Claus Wilke, a Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas, who tweeted on Sunday that Greenwald was a
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Men Drive Faster than Women… and it’s Okay to Acknowledge this Fact 0
- Culture
- February 7, 2018
It’s not often that someone has the courage to make a straightforward, common sense observation that goes against cultural talking points. When that does happen, however, it’s hard to keep from laughing outright, which is what I did when I came across a Twitter statement from American Enterprise Institute scholar Christina Hoff Sommers. The subject
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Five Ingenious Ways Snakes Manipulate Their Bodies to Hunt and Survive 0
- Science
- February 7, 2018
Do a quick search for “snakes” in the news and you’ll find people terrified, bitten or, sadly, killed by these creatures. Many of us fear their slithering ways and researchers have found evidence which suggests that humans have evolved a tendency to spot snakes more easily than other animals. But there are more than 3,500
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What Early Christian Hermits Can Teach Us About Being Alone 0