Culture

The Zone of Adulthood 0
- Culture
- April 9, 2019
Like some of you, I suffer from insomnia. Try as I might, sometimes I just can’t close the deal when I put head to pillow. It started in my teens; I would take a walk or swim in an effort to get tired out enough for sleep. But the passage of time has granted me
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Fox News Isn’t the Problem, It’s the Media’s Obsession with Fox News 0
- Culture
- April 9, 2019
The American press seems fixated on Fox News and its owners, the Murdoch family. Recently, The New York Times purported to explain “How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World.” This followed The New Yorker’s investigation into the “making of the Fox News White House.” Both articles claim to reveal the true political impact
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A Scrunchie-Wearing Man Just Doesn’t Cut It 3
- Culture
- April 8, 2019
If you lived through the 1990s, then you endured some repellent clothing trends. Mom jeans. Denim overalls. Flannel shirts. Scrunchies. I rocked that last one. I still remember my favorite: green with little white daisies on it. To my surprise, I discovered this trend is returning… and not just for women, either. According to The
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Four Reasons ‘You’re a Hater’ Has Become Fashionable Slander 0
- Culture
- April 8, 2019
Hatred has been having a boom time. No insult cuts us more deeply than “you’re a hater”. It means that you are intransigent, intolerant, bigoted and probably a secret nose-picker. “You’re a hater” (or its close cousin, “you’re a bigot”) shuts down all dialogue and turns the alleged hater into a pariah. It was not
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How America’s Gun Culture Cultivates Civic Virtue 0
- Culture
- April 8, 2019
“It is through the enjoyment of a dangerous freedom that Americans learn the art of reducing freedom’s perils.” —Alexis de Tocqueville Many people are often surprised to learn that I am a gun owner and firm defender of the Second Amendment. After all, I, a first-generation Chinese-American immigrant, do not fit the stereotype of the
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How the West Can Save Masculinity 0
- Culture
- April 8, 2019
What if the men who obsess over the decline of the West actually helped to restore it? There is no doubt that life is moving at a faster pace than ever before, accelerated by technology and intensified by our growing divisions. But inside the whirlwind lies a burning question: are there still effective ways to
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