Culture

How Our Culture Disempowers Teens 0
- Culture
- July 30, 2019
Teenagers are extraordinarily capable. Louis Braille invented his language for the blind when he was 15. Mary Shelley, daughter of libertarian feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, wrote Frankenstein when she was 18. As a young teen, Anne Frank documented her life of hiding from the Nazis during World War II. Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Prize at 17. The Impact
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Let’s Stop Blaming Law-Abiding Gun Owners 0
- Culture
- July 30, 2019
In the corner of the room near my desk are two .22-caliber rifles, a 20-gauge shotgun, and a BB gun. The single shot .22 was my father’s when he was a boy, the six shot .22 was the gift of a friend, and the shotgun was given me as a teenager and hasn’t had the
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How Did the Presidential Campaign Get to Be so Long?0
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- July 30, 2019
Four hundred and thirty-two days prior to the election and 158 days before the Iowa caucus, millions of Americans will tune in for the second round of Democratic debates. If this seems like a long time to contemplate the candidates, it is. By comparison, Canadian election campaigns average just 50 days. In France, candidates have
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Communism and Nazism Are Now Legally Synonymous in Ukraine 0
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- July 29, 2019
Their names still haunt us. Chelmno. Belzec, Sobibor. Treblinka. Auschwitz. Dachau. Majdanek. They stir images of the horrors of Nazi killing centers, where millions of Jews, Poles, Soviet POWs, and gypsies were systematically killed in one of the great horrors of the twentieth century. For many of us, this imagery is associated exclusively with Hitler
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How to Do Well at a New Job – in Five Easy Steps 0
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- July 29, 2019
Can we please talk about how utterly awful starting a new job can be? No matter how wonderful your new coworkers are, how wonderful and understanding your new boss is, or how appealing your improved salary looks, the fact remains that, within mere moments of walking in the door on Day One, you are quite
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Children Deserve Better Than ‘Baby Shark’1
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- July 29, 2019
Earlier this month, news broke that officials in Florida were blasting the children’s song “Baby Shark” on a loop to discourage homeless people from sleeping in a local park. In other words, that song is considered to be unbearable. It will drive anyone away. American parents – or probably just any American, parent or not
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