Culture

Former Navy SEAL Suggests 3 Reasons Young People Are Buying into Socialism 0
- Culture
- March 15, 2019
Recently Texas congressman and general uber-mensch Dan Crenshaw made an appearance on a Sunday talk show. After arm-wrestling and talking for a long time about the former Navy SEAL’s own journey in politics, Crenshaw was questioned on why so many of today’s young people are going all-in on the “democratic socialism” touted by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie
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The Most Intolerant County in America (and the Most Tolerant City)0
- Culture
- March 15, 2019
The Atlantic recently asked PredictWise, an analytics firm, to rank US counties based on partisan prejudice (“affective polarization”). The results are now in, and they are fascinating. [Editor’s note: Image shown below] The most intolerant country was not Rabun County in northeastern Georgia, where the film Deliverance was shot. Nor was it in Albany County,
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7 Reasons Why the Equality Act Is Anything But 0
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- March 14, 2019
Most Americans don’t want a nationwide bathroom requirement, health care mandate, or “preferred pronoun” law based on gender identity, but congressional Democrats seem to think it’s time to impose them. Nancy Pelosi delivered Wednesday on her promise to introduce the so-called Equality Act, which would elevate sexual orientation and gender identity to protected classes in
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Three-Quarters of Parents ‘Adulting’ for Their Grown Children 0
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- March 14, 2019
I ran across a fascinating little chart in the New York Times the other day. It described the percentage of parents who take on responsibilities that their adult children should be doing. Some of the more unbelievable ones include wake-up calls (15 percent), contacting a child’s employer (11 percent), and contacting a professor to discuss
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How Storytelling Could Revitalize U.S. History Scores 1
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- March 14, 2019
Whatever I teach, I teach storytelling because it is an expression of human creativity that provides perspective. Stories help us understand our world by showing us that random events surrounding our lives only seem random, but are in fact connected. Stories enable us to perceive a higher level of meaning. Fiction such as J.R.R. Tolkien’s The
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Class Struggle and the End of Identity Politics 0
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- March 14, 2019
As the Democratic party in the United States gears up for the 2020 presidential campaign, and a host of candidates announce their entry into the fray, some have observed a (class?) struggle between what might be called the Old Left (the sort of democratic socialism associated with Bernie Sanders) and the New Left (the identity
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