Culture

What Explains Modern Hostility to the Family?0
- Culture
- September 10, 2019
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America Is a ‘Bananas’ Republic 0
- Culture
- September 9, 2019
Every morning, I visit four or five of my favorite news sites to see whether Venusians have invaded planet earth, the vampires are under control, Trump Derangement Syndrome is alive and well, and the sun is still shining. This morning there was no mention of Venusians or vampires, the derangement rages on, and the sun
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The Youth Mental Health Crisis: What Does It All Mean?0
- Culture
- September 9, 2019
New data on the mental health of American college students shows a somber trend. Rates of depression, anxiety, low flourishing, suicidal thinking, and suicidal attempts have all worsened over the years 2007 to 2018, according to research by Jean Twenge and colleagues, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health. And it’s not all down to more reporting.
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‘Get Your Guns, Boys! They’re Robbing the Bank!’0
- Culture
- September 6, 2019
If you haven’t heard, the city of San Francisco is setting out to rid itself of terrorism. Domestic terrorism, that is. “Great!” many of us would say. “A city should work hard to keep its citizens safe.” The trouble is, San Francisco has an interesting definition of what constitutes a domestic terrorist. In a recent
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Renewing Reason in Our Local Communities 0
- Culture
- September 6, 2019
Nothing puts the struggles of one’s own life in perspective better than watching your peers succumb to despair. Until the turn of the twenty-first century, members of Generation X seemed to have grown beyond their characteristic “latchkey kid” childhoods. Yet today, many of these fellow citizens of ours, now middle-aged, are opioid addicts and victims
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Government Won’t Save Us From “Woke” Corporations 0
- Culture
- September 6, 2019
From the shoes you wear to the ice cream you eat, politics has found a way to sneak into some of the most mundane aspects of our lives. The new trend of “Woke Capital,” where firms are actively promoting social justice causes, has had many free-marketers scratching their heads at how corporate America has hopped
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