Culture

Living Alone: More Common and More Unhealthy?0
- Culture
- May 21, 2019
“It is not good that man should be alone.” And now a new study has suggested that living alone is correlated with having a mental disorder. Louis Jacob from the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines has concluded that living alone “is positively associated with common mental disorders, regardless of age or sex.” The study compared survey
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And the Most Sexually Satisfied Group of People Is…0
- Culture
- May 21, 2019
Women are the happiest when they are in equality-loving, feminist-minded relationships, right? That’s the line we’re often told. But a recent report seems to suggest something different. Contemplating the role religion plays in the satisfaction levels of a marriage, the 2019 “World Family Map” surveys almost 10,000 men and women from around the world. These
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Winning the Culture War One Avocado Skirmish at a Time 0
- Culture
- May 21, 2019
In 1996, W.W. Norton & Company published Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip-Mining of American Culture. In this collection of essays, 23 writers came together to address culture and its “ominous slippage, a shift towards the bizarre, the third-rate, the purely opportunistic.” Contributors included well-known authors Joseph Epstein, Cynthia Ozick, Phillip Lopate, Armstrong Williams, and Heather
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California Makes Housing Scarcer 0
- Culture
- May 20, 2019
Housing in California will become even more scarce. California’s legislature has shelved a bill that would result in more housing construction, while moving forward on other legislation that would reduce the supply of housing. The State Senate just blocked a bill that would have allowed denser development near transit stops, increasing the number of housing
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The Duchess of Cambridge on the Benefits of a Childhood Lived Outdoors 0
- Culture
- May 20, 2019
Over the weekend, Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, debuted her garden design for the Chelsea Flower Show. The whole family came along making for some adorable photos including the following: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kensington
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‘Free’ College Would Depreciate the Value of College Degrees Even More 0
- Culture
- May 20, 2019
For US citizens aged between 18 and 24 years, college enrollment rates reached more than 40 percent in 2017. Of those, nearly one in three (31 percent) drop out entirely. Why should the average taxpayer subsidize this? There is no conclusive evidence to prove that societal gains are worth the cost to the taxpayer. Going
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