Culture

Breaking a Bad Habit Starts With Silence 0
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- December 31, 2019
If your New Year’s resolutions include breaking a bad habit, the odds are stacked against you. According to habits expert James Clear, “depending on where you get your numbers, somewhere between 81 percent and 92 percent of New Year’s Resolutions fail.” I won’t promise you a simple fix to break a habit. I do want to
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Six Reasons for Optimism in 2020 0
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- December 30, 2019
“The 2010s have been the best decade ever. The evidence is overwhelming.” Those are the words of Cato Institute senior fellow Johan Norberg, penned in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal. Norberg’s words seem hyperbolic at first glance, but he may be right. In many ways, the world is getting better every day, and
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Little Women 2019: Another Feckless Feminist Rendering 0
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- December 30, 2019
There’s a lot to love in Greta Gerwig’s 2019 adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s timeless classic, Little Women. The film boasts a stunning score by Alexandre Desplat, breathtaking cinematography, and a star-studded cast including Emma Watson, Meryl Streep, Laura Dern, and Saoirse Ronan. But by taking Alcott’s heartwarming story to “new feminist heights,” Gerwig has abandoned some
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A New Year’s Chat With the Devil 0
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- December 30, 2019
Ah, New Year’s Eve! It’s a great moment for reflecting on the past, taking stock of the present, and planning for the future. Indulging in the Auld Lang Syne cliché is not unique to humans. The spirit world does the same, or at least it does according to a piece in a 1948 edition of
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Americans Aren’t Losing Religion, They’re Inventing a New One 0
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- December 30, 2019
In the opening prayers of the traditional Latin Mass, the priest and the servers kneel at the foot of the altar and speak these words, “Introibo ad altare Dei…” which means “I will go to the altar of God.” Many readers of Intellectual Takeout “go to the altar of God,” meaning they possess a belief
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Here’s How Bad San Francisco’s Poop Problem Got In 2019 0
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- December 26, 2019
San Francisco residents reported more than 30,000 cases of poop to authorities in 2019, city records show. As of Monday afternoon, the city’s Department of Public Works responded to 30,136 cases of “human or animal waste” this year, easily topping the 28,353 cases the agency handled in 2018 with a week still to go, according to a
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