Culture

Millennials: Stop Talking About ‘Adulting’ and Become Adults 0
- Culture
- July 16, 2019
My 20-year-old son recently returned home from his first year away at university. Of course, he did not arrive empty-handed: he brought with him several bags stuffed full of dirty laundry. It’s clearly people like my son that the UK’s Department for Education has in mind when it announced plans this week for a “new masterclass to
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Women’s Soccer: More Iron Horse, Less Braying 1
- Culture
- July 16, 2019
Recently, Americans were implored to pay attention to a sport most of us do not follow for reasons that have little to do with the dramatic nature of the competition. Turning on a computer brought regular reminders of this sport, with Google Doodles dedicated to each of the participating teams and news feeds filled with
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How Students Have Turned Their Back on Civil Discourse 0
- Culture
- July 16, 2019
More than a half-century ago, Coretta Scott King addressed Harvard University students in the wake of the assassination of her husband, Martin Luther King Jr. She said: Today’s student is a serious-minded, independent-thinking individual who seeks to analyze and understand the problems of our society, and find solutions to these problems, which are in keeping with the
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I Went to a Socialism Conference. Here Are My 6 Observations.0
- Culture
- July 15, 2019
While you were enjoying your Fourth of July weekend, I was attending a national conference on socialism. Why? Because socialism is having its moment on the left. Since there’s often confusion as to what socialism really is, I decided to attend the Socialism 2019 conference at the Hyatt Hotel in Chicago over the Fourth of
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Could Hormonal Contraception Be on Its Way Out?0
- Culture
- 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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