Culture

Could Hormonal Contraception Be on Its Way Out?0
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- July 15, 2019
In the App Store’s health and fitness category, the number of period trackers is now second only to running apps. Women are more empowered to conveniently access knowledge about their own fertility than ever before. One such app, Natural Cycles, goes so far as to describe itself as “digital contraception” and is the first app to
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Can Summer Jobs Reduce Violent Crime?0
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- July 15, 2019
Several decades of social science has shown a correlation between joblessness among disadvantaged youth and violent crime. While remediation has not been shown to lead to prevention, there is some evidence that summer jobs can. For example a 2015 studypublished in the journal Science found that giving disadvantaged youth a summer job significanty reduces violent crime: In a
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You Are Who You Eat With 0
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- July 15, 2019
Why do we make food? The obvious answer is so we can have food fights. Joking aside, when I reflect on my experience with the culinary arts – whether carefully crafting Buche de Noel for Christmas or whiling away a summer afternoon making flakey scones – food is ultimately about people and community. Yet it
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NEA Embraces the Woke Agenda — But Votes down “Student Learning”0
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- July 12, 2019
Last week, thousands of teachers gathered in Houston for the National Education Association’s (NEA) annual convention. During the convention, any group of 50 delegates could bring to the floor a new business item, which is a one-year, non-binding resolution directing the union to take a certain action. Over 160 new business items were proposed, including New
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Are E-Scooters a Menace or Needed Innovation?0
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- July 12, 2019
Are today’s new motorized electric scooters an epidemic terrorizing American cities? In the New York Times, Nashville writer Margaret Renkl argues that the shared vehicles known as e-scooters are often abandoned in inappropriate places—such as in front of doorways, in the middle of the sidewalk, and on street corners. Renkl presents this as an inconvenience that outweighs all
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The BBC’s Critique of ‘I, Pencil’ Misses the Point 0
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- July 12, 2019
Leonard Read’s immortal essay “I, Pencil” has persuaded more people of the wonders of the free market than possibly any other comparable work – so many that the BBC recently posted an article attacking it. However, anyone reading both articles will conclude that Read’s pencil comes out looking sharper. The mere fact that Read’s article
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