Culture

Of Foot Binding and Modern Childhood 8
- Culture, Family
- October 23, 2024
We no longer live in an era of foot binding, writes my Let Grow cofounder Peter Gray, a psychologist who studies the importance of mixed-age, unsupervised play. But for about a thousand years, as he notes in a recent Substack post, girls in China would have their feet broken and bound to stop them from
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Women’s College Volleyball Teams Are Reclaiming Their Sport From Men, One Boycott at a Time 4
- Culture, Featured
- October 22, 2024
Boycotts are costly, but they work. This is the lesson female athletes are learning across the United States as they sacrifice short-term gains and glory to reclaim their sports from female-identifying men. The latest news on this front comes out of Nevada, where a fifth women’s college volleyball team has forfeited their game against San
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The Hurricane Helene Response and the Forgotten Americans 1
- Culture, Featured
- October 22, 2024
On Thursday September 26, Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region. It soon carved a path of destruction through Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee, and it has claimed over 250 American lives, making it the deadliest hurricane to hit the mainland United States since Katrina in 2005. While the news cycle has
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Does the American Dream Really Cost $4.4 Million?1
- Culture, Economics, Featured
- October 18, 2024
Is the American Dream still possible? As inflation continues to bloat prices, we hear this question bandied about with increasing frequency. The answer depends a lot on how we define the “American Dream.” Investopedia’s version of the dream costs some $4.4 million over a lifetime—a figure that may place it out of reach for many
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Is Halloween a Christian Holiday?11
- Religion, Culture
- October 18, 2024
Conventional wisdom holds that Halloween is essentially a secular and pagan holiday, the result of the Christian Church appropriating an ancient Celtic harvest festival. But one strain of critical opinion tends to the view that the holiday was thoroughly Christian from the start. In the church calendar, Halloween (All Hallows’ Eve) is the beginning of
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A Soupy Saga: Climate Activists Target van Gogh Paintings 3
- Culture, Featured
- October 17, 2024
Three climate activists poured Heinz soup all over van Gogh’s Sunflowers paintings at the National Gallery of London last month. The stunt came an hour after two other climate activists, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland, were sentenced to time in jail for throwing tomato soup on a van Gogh painting at the same gallery in
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