Culture

What 1990s True-Crime Shows and Movies Teach about America Today 0
- Culture
- January 16, 2019
“The more things change the more they stay the same.” Originally a French saying believed to have been coined in 1849, this phrase perfectly describes our current national obsession with revisiting the great media frenzies of the 1990s. In 2016 Americans relived the drama of the O.J. Simpson trial with the documentary O.J.: Made in
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Human Rights Court Rules Against Parental Rights 0
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- January 16, 2019
Decades ago, when I was first ordained a priest, I shared a prejudice that many people hold: I thought homeschooling families were odd. I believed schooling children at home deprived such children of opportunities to be with other children causing them to be less able to communicate with others, socially awkward, and reclusive and narrow
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How To Talk to Someone Who Wants To Put You In A Gulag 0
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- January 16, 2019
A few months ago, I was having a few beers with TAC managing editor Matt Purple, and we ended up pondering the great question of our times: why did people vote for Trump? After tossing around the usual answers (a reaction against Hillary’s hawkishness, his carefully curated aura of success, post-industrial blue collar angst), Matt told me
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The Heart of the Matter: Families and Fatherhood 0
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- January 15, 2019
In “Back To Discipline: Disparate Impact Reflects Disparate Reality”, Heather MacDonald applauds the Federal Commission on School Safety’s repudiation “of disparate-impact analysis.” She writes: Disparate-impact analysis holds that if a facially-neutral policy negatively affects blacks and Hispanics at a higher rate than whites and Asians, it is discriminatory. Noticing the behavioral differences that lead to
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Millennials: A Lost Generation Without the Booze and Jazz 0
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- January 15, 2019
Older Americans love to typecast Millennials, the generation born between 1980 and 1996, as disengaged, indolent, and technologically hooked. For Millennials, social interaction involves hashtags, spiritual fulfillment requires podcasts, and a Sunday morning features cycles and yoga mats. They are also now the majority of America’s workforce, yet this Internet-raised demographic continues to puzzle employers.
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Homer’s Advice for Husbands and Wives 0
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- January 14, 2019
Author’s Introduction: Imagine if Homer, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, and the other great poets of ancient Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages had been given the gift, not only to peer into the twenty-first century, but to correspond with we who live in that most confusing and rudderless of centuries. Had it been in their power
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