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New Poll Suggests Reading Strengthens Family Relationships 0
- Culture
- March 3, 2016
A recent Harris Poll shows that reading to children has more benefits than simply getting them excited about reading on their own. Parent-child reading times are also a great facilitator of family relationships: “Adults who say their parents read to them every day when they were young are especially likely to report very strong relationships
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Tocqueville: Love of Equality Leads to Hatred 0
- Culture
- March 3, 2016
It’s said that some of the fiercest fights in academia are over the narrowest of differences. It seems that Alexis de Tocqueville saw the same problem developing within democracy as the quest for equality grew. A French aristocrat, he came to America in the early 1800s and studied it extensively, composing his reflections in Democracy
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2015: the year when Italy’s demographic malaise became apparent 0
- Culture
- March 3, 2016
Recently there has come to light yet more news that suggests that yes, Europe is indeed dying. According to Reuters, for the first time in three decades the Italian population declined (the last population drop was a very small one in 1986, and in effect Italy’s population has been growing continually since 1952). The population
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It Shouldn’t Matter Who the President Is 0
- Culture
- March 3, 2016
Freedom lovers everywhere are biting their nails during the election season, wondering how the damage can be limited. Depending on who gains control, we could have trade wars, nationalized health care, the pillaging of Wall Street and Main Street, more wars in the Middle East, a VAT tax, surveillance of your smartphone, mass deportations, internment camps,
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Jimmy Kimmel, George Washington, and Unhappiness in the U.S.0
- Culture
- March 3, 2016
Jimmy Kimmel is famous for showing the ignorance of Americans, and his Super Tuesday man-on-the-street interviews were no exception. Kimmel’s team went to California, a state which did not participate in Super Tuesday voting. Despite this fact, interviewees were quick to say they had fought large crowds to get into their polling places. One man
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The Key to a Healthy, Happy Life is…0
- Culture
- March 3, 2016
Last fall, The Atlantic ran an article entitled “Dorms for Grownups: A Solution for Lonely Millennials?” In essence, the article explained how a search for community and connection was inspiring living arrangements designed to facilitate relationships between millennials. As a new article from The Washington Post explains, if millennials don’t get their act together in
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