Culture

Lettuce Pray: Climate Change, Neo-Paganism, and the End of the World 0
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- November 12, 2019
The climate change movement has become the “modern world’s secular religion,” declared Wall Street Journal columnist Gerard Baker recently. Climate activists preach a gospel of conservation that aims to redeem humanity’s environmental sins. They counsel us to abstain from eating meat to reduce our “carbon footprint,” and prophesy that Earth will perish unless governments worldwide trust the oracle from whom we
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How to Make Friends as a Lonely Adult 0
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- November 11, 2019
Late this summer I met with several recent college graduates for lunch. We were chatting away when one of them fired off a question that caught me by surprise. “Annie,” this young lady asked, “what did you do to make friends?” I suddenly realized the situation these girls were in. They were on their own
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When Guests Come In, Your TV Should Go Off 0
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- November 11, 2019
Who leaves their TV on when hosting guests? The answer should be “no one.” Unfortunately, in real life the answer is “lots of people.” I have lost count of how often I’ve arrived at someone’s home as an invited guest while they were watching TV. Common courtesy suggests that the TV set should be switched
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Socialism All About Inclusivity and Kindness, These Students Say 0
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- November 11, 2019
The word “socialism” has left behind its past of breadlines and beatings and has come to mean something like “kindness” for some students at Georgetown University, The Daily Signal found in campus interviews. Many millennials would agree with the positive feelings these university students have for socialism. According to a new YouGov survey commissioned by the Victims
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Is the Parenting Gig Just Too Much Work?0
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- November 11, 2019
Kate Lawler, a 39-year-old former reality TV star turned broadcaster in the UK and her 35-year-old fiancé have started a podcast for those conflicted about starting a family. It aims to break what they describe as the “taboo” about expressing a desire not to have children. A “light-hearted look at the highs and lows of parenting,” the podcast Maybe
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Why We Must Reclaim Armistice Day 0
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- November 11, 2019
Once upon a time a self-styled progressive American president who had only just won re-election on the slogan “he kept us out of war,” led the U.S. into the midst of the bloodiest worldwide conflict in history. Europeans dubbed it the Great War. Americans today remember it as World War One, and recall it as
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