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  • Should Parents Give Expensive Gifts to Children?

    Should Parents Give Expensive Gifts to Children?0

    Over at The Guardian, fashion columnist Hadley Freeman has penned an interesting piece on the rise of designer children’s clothing. Designer wear kids’ clothes, Freeman notes, seem to have gained popularity in recent years, particularly given the equation of Kim Kardashian + North West + social media accounts: “The usual celebrities, such as Victoria Beckham

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  • Reese Witherspoon’s Daughter Has Something Many Celebrity Children Lack: A Work Ethic

    Reese Witherspoon’s Daughter Has Something Many Celebrity Children Lack: A Work Ethic0

    In his book, The Vanishing American Adult, Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska shared with readers his favorite hashtag game from the summer of 2016. It was called #FirstSevenJobs, which asked Twitter users to list the jobs they first encountered in their working lives. The Senator’s first jobs were mostly agricultural, having grown up in Nebraska,

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  • Paul Krugman Discovers the Problem with Unbridled Presidential Power

    Paul Krugman Discovers the Problem with Unbridled Presidential Power0

    It’s always an occasion of note when Paul Krugman says a true thing. And it has happened. “Given the powers we grant to the president, who in some ways is almost like an elected dictator, giving the office to someone likely to abuse that power invites catastrophe.” Abused power is indeed potentially catastrophic. Perhaps there

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  • Hurricane Harvey Brings Out the Best in Americans

    Hurricane Harvey Brings Out the Best in Americans0

    Pictures of destroyed homes and flooded neighborhoods are heartbreaking, but the inspiring images of neighbors helping neighbors and average citizens performing heroic acts has shown Texas, and America, at its best. The eyes of the country have been on Texas as it deals with the devastating effects of Hurricane Harvey. Along with coverage of the

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  • How Higher Education “Studies” Men

    How Higher Education “Studies” Men0

    In 2013, Stony Brook University (part of the SUNY system) revealed plans for a new “Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities.” Since I’m a Stony Brook grad, I was quite interested in this development. Would the new Center do anything to enhance the school’s reputation for scholarship? I didn’t think it would, but

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  • Corporate America is Abandoning Neutrality and Entering Social Justice Fray

    Corporate America is Abandoning Neutrality and Entering Social Justice Fray0

    It may sound hard to believe, but America’s CEOs seem to increasingly resemble Che Guevera, the Marxist who became the face of the Cuban Revolution. The latest similarities came in mid-August after President Donald Trump’s contentious response to the violent clashes between white supremacists and their opponents in Charlottesville, Virginia. That prompted a number of

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  • Violence Can’t Be Justified Because You Don’t Like What Someone Says (Video)

    Violence Can’t Be Justified Because You Don’t Like What Someone Says (Video)0

    The optics of the video (see below) are chilling: At the August 20 “America First” rally in Laguna Beach, California, a large white man sucker-punches a well-dressed, slightly built black man. Perhaps ironically, this incident does not fit stereotypical expectations: The punching victim, R. C. Maxwell, was not protesting against the anti-illegal immigration rally but attending

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  • Trump is Smart to Insist a Military Option Against North Korea Remains on the Table

    Trump is Smart to Insist a Military Option Against North Korea Remains on the Table0

    President Donald Trump said “all options are on the table” Tuesday in response to North Korea firing a ballistic missile that passed over Japan. “The world has received North Korea’s latest message loud and clear: this regime has signaled its contempt for its neighbors, for all members of the United Nations, and for minimum standards

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  • The Morality of Modern Education is Relativism

    The Morality of Modern Education is Relativism0

    It would be a mistake or, at any rate, an exaggeration to say that modern education has turned its back on morality. It has not. It’s just that the morality it pursues is that of radical relativism with its radical skepticism about the benefits of the “great conversation” that has animated educated discourse for almost

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