Culture

Why Failure Is a Relative State 0
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- January 20, 2020
Part of the uniqueness of the human condition is our tendency to compare each other. We compare our jobs, our possessions, and our very bodies to those of our neighbors and coworkers. “If only I had a house as big as he does…” “If only I made as much money as she is making…” “If
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One Reason for Donald Trump’s Success 0
- Culture
- January 17, 2020
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 0
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- January 17, 2020
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 0
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- January 17, 2020
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 0
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- January 17, 2020
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 0
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- January 16, 2020
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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