Culture

Breaking Old Habits: Millennials Make the Nun Run 0
- Culture
- August 6, 2019
I was taken aback at the headlining article on ESPN this weekend. It wasn’t about kneeling football players. Instead, one might say it was about a kneeling basketball player: Shelly Pennefather. Pennefather, a former All-American player for Villanova, turned down a professional basketball career to join the cloistered convent of the Poor Clares. ESPN captured
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Three Reasons Why Media Coverage May Be Contributing to Mass Shootings 0
- Culture
- August 5, 2019
If you are like me, you’ve probably followed the media coverage of the shootings in El Paso and Dayton quite closely. These massacres provide brutal reminders of the terrible impact of gun violence. Of course, media outlets constantly have something to say about this sort of crime, whether it be the initial report of
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Robots Ready to Scoop Ice Cream Jobs 0
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- August 5, 2019
California isn’t nicknamed Commiefornia for nothing. Decades of limited housing, water use restrictions, overzealous environmental regulations, and now a rapidly increasing minimum wage make it difficult for entrepreneurs. But despite it all, businesses are adapting, shifting investments away from personnel and toward automation. Robots, at an increasing pace, are serving customers, as fast-food joints and grocery stores adapt to
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Why Baby Strikes Won’t Save the Planet 0
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- August 5, 2019
If you’re worried about climate change, you shouldn’t have children. Ever. That’s the new argument that many young Americans are buying into. The issue gained prominence in February when Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez raised it on Instagram, and it was back in the news earlier this month when pop singer Miley Cyrus suggested she wouldn’t be
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When Nominalists Curl in the Squat Rack 0
- Culture
- August 5, 2019
A gentleman at my gym recently took it upon himself to perform sets of standing barbell curls in a squat rack. This type of disordered behavior really aggravates me. A colleague of mine playfully jested with this degenerate: “Hey man, why you curling in the squat rack? There should be laws against that!” I joined
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What is a 21st Century Family?0
- Culture
- August 2, 2019
What is a family? Not so long ago it would have been uncontroversial to reply, “A husband and wife and their children.” This conjugal family could be diminished by the death of a member, splintered by divorce, expanded by the co-residence of other relations (a grandmother, for example), an adopted child, or other persons; but
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