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  • One Reason for Donald Trump’s Success

    One Reason for Donald Trump’s Success0

    Some Grinches hate America! The whole American scene! And no one quite knows the reason why they wish to vent their spleen. It could be, perhaps, that their shoes are too tight. It could be their heads aren’t screwed on just right. But I think that the most likely reason of all Is that their

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  • Seattle’s Happiness Problem

    Seattle’s Happiness Problem0

    Early in 2019, Seattle-based TV station KOMO News released a documentary on the sorry state of the Emerald City. Seattle, it seems, has become a place of drugs, crime, and homeless encampments. Concerns about Seattle’s situation go beyond the documentary. Christopher Sandford, a Seattle journalist and author, experienced this firsthand while attending a college debate

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  • Why Teen Depression Rates Are Rising Faster for Girls Than Boys

    Why Teen Depression Rates Are Rising Faster for Girls Than Boys0

    We’re in the middle of a teen mental health crisis – and girls are at its epicenter. Since 2010, depression, self-harm and suicide rates have increased among teen boys. But rates of major depression among teen girls in the U.S. increased even more – from 12 percent in 2011 to 20 percent in 2017. In 2015, three

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  • Rowling and King Slam Into the Woke Diversity Cult

    Rowling and King Slam Into the Woke Diversity Cult0

    Nothing is more appetizing than watching the limbs of progressive icons mulch between the jaws of the Woke. With a giddy regularity, the picadors of piffle lower themselves to those over which they loft. A glorious sight – like savannah lions ripping through their prey. There’s something deeply primal about it. And something deserved about it. The

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  • Saving the Real American Dream in 2020

    Saving the Real American Dream in 20200

    In Mark Helprin’s humorous and insightful novel Freddy and Fredericka, Freddy, the bumbling Prince of Wales and heir to the throne, and his spoiled wife Fredericka, are dispatched on a special mission: to conquer the United States of America. Wearing “modesty panels of golden rabbits’ fur,” they parachute into New Jersey at night and set off

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  • The Dehumanizing Horror of Facebook Tag Groups

    The Dehumanizing Horror of Facebook Tag Groups1

    When I was in high school, I had a classmate who obsessively sorted everyone in the school into made-up categories. It seemed like every week, he would invent new sets of criteria by which to group us. For reasons I couldn’t fully explain, I hated it. It was only years later, when employers started asking

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