Culture

Is Football Becoming Too Nice?2
- Culture
- November 29, 2018
It’s that time of year again. No, not the holiday season, but the football playoffs. The regular season for college football just ended, with conference playoffs next weekend. Then it is bowl season and the NCAA playoffs. The NFL still has several weeks left in its regular season, and then playoff games begin shortly after
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The Reason We Love The Nutcracker 0
- Culture
- November 29, 2018
Many people this holiday season will experience the joy of attending a local performance of “The Nutcracker” ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It’s the most implausible American tradition imaginable, an import from fin-de-siècle Russia straight to your hometown. It’s living proof of the capacity of music and the art of dance to leap the bounds
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The ’60s Radicals Won the Culture War 0
- Culture
- November 29, 2018
Fifty years ago this year, the ’60s revolution sought to overturn U.S. customs, traditions, ideology, and politics. The ’60s radicals eventually grew older, cut their hair, and joined the establishment. Most thought their revolution had fizzled out in the early 1970s without much effect, as Americans returned to “normal.” But maybe the ’60s, not the
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How Every Parent Can Combat Rising Teen Depression 0
- Culture
- November 29, 2018
Today’s young people are depressed. According to an issue of the Johns Hopkins Health Review, “the odds of adolescents suffering from clinical depression grew by 37 percent between 2005 and 2014.” And this depression doesn’t appear to get better with age, either. According to a Blue Cross and Blue Shield report from earlier this year,
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Hillary Clinton: Conservatives Were Right on Mass Migration 0
- Culture
- November 28, 2018
Amidst the hurly-burly of politics these days, it can be hard to notice when your side has won a victory. Yet that’s what’s just happened for conservatives on immigration: they’ve won. Okay, it’s not a final victory, nor even a crushing victory, but, even so, it’s a win. We know this because Hillary Clinton, arguably
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Are White Women Dupes?0
- Culture
- November 28, 2018
Let me introduce you to three women. Because of the ugly political times in which we live, I have changed their names, but these are women I know well, all of them white. Let’s start with Katie. She and her husband, an attorney, have one natural child and have adopted six others. The children range
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