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  • Failure to Launch: Young Americans Living with Parents Hits 75-Year High

    Failure to Launch: Young Americans Living with Parents Hits 75-Year High0

    Via the Wall Street Journal: Almost 40% of young Americans were living with their parents, siblings or other relatives in 2015, the largest percentage since 1940, according to an analysis of census data by real estate tracker Trulia. Despite a rebounding economy and recent job growth, the share of those between the ages of 18

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  • Why Wandering Minds Are Unhappy Minds

    Why Wandering Minds Are Unhappy Minds0

    Have you ever eaten an apple cider doughnut? I hadn’t; but I was craving one. My wife and I were hiking on a beautiful fall day. The first leg of the hike was unrelentingly steep. Sometimes at the beginning of a hike, my mind fills with complaints: too hot, too many bugs, too steep, too

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  • Why I’ll Never Own a Cat (And Why You Shouldn’t Either)

    Why I’ll Never Own a Cat (And Why You Shouldn’t Either)0

    Last summer, a few neighbor children came running up to our house. They had found a litter of kittens under their deck. My 5-year-old daughter was out the door so fast I didn’t have the opportunity to shout, “Stop! Brain parasites!” I’ve been deathly afraid of cats for five years now. It all stems from

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  • When Rudolph Meets Beowulf

    When Rudolph Meets Beowulf0

    One doesn’t need to be a Christian to enjoy Christmas. Or, to put it another way, even non-Christians can enjoy Christmas, if they embrace it in the broad Dickensian spirit of the Thing. Yes indeed. Everyone can enjoy Christmas. Or nearly everyone. There are, of course, always the Scrooges. Take, for instance, the Scrooges at

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  • The Reason Nazis Studied American Race Laws

    The Reason Nazis Studied American Race Laws0

    On 5 June 1934, about a year and half after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of the Reich, the leading lawyers of Nazi Germany gathered at a meeting to plan what would become the Nuremberg Laws, the centrepiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi race regime. The meeting was an important one, and a stenographer was present

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  • Scholar: U.S. Schools Producing the ‘Dumbest Generation’ Ever

    Scholar: U.S. Schools Producing the ‘Dumbest Generation’ Ever0

    Generally speaking, if there’s one thing that liberals and conservatives agree on it’s that America’s schools are in rough shape. A look at the results coming out of today’s schools only lends further credibility to this assertion. With the exception of economics, fewer than 40 percent of today’s high school seniors are proficient in any

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  • FDR On How to Find ‘Peace on Earth’ Amid War and Despair

    FDR On How to Find ‘Peace on Earth’ Amid War and Despair0

    Over the weekend, my attention was drawn to an old Christmas carol whose words were composed by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I was particularly struck by the air of hopelessness which comes near the end of the carol, I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day: “And in despair I bowed my head; ‘There is no peace

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  • Why We Shouldn’t Need Liberal Arts Colleges

    Why We Shouldn’t Need Liberal Arts Colleges0

    There are some liberal arts colleges out there doing great work. Among them are St. John’s College in Annapolis, Thomas Aquinas College in California, and New St. Andrews College in Idaho. These colleges provide students with a well-rounded and rigorous education in languages and the Great Books.   If you’re going to spend four years

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  • The Electoral College Is No Accident

    The Electoral College Is No Accident0

    The Electoral College has now done its work and confirmed the results of the presidential election. But not before another election in which the candidate who received the most votes lost and caused it to become the object of a debate about the legitimacy of its role in a democratic republic. The appropriateness of the

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