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  • Why Are Millennial Women So Into Guns?

    Why Are Millennial Women So Into Guns?0

    Sarah is an attractive, petite, thirty-something mother and homemaker. She lives in a middle-class home near Asheville, North Carolina, is conservative in her politics and devout in her religious practices, and remains deeply in love with her husband, Joe, whom she has known since high school. She also carries a handgun. For years, Sarah disliked

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  • Meet the Father of One Thousand Kids

    Meet the Father of One Thousand Kids0

    Another adventure in the reproductive revolution. Not long ago the news surfaced that a Dutch man may have fathered 1000 children by donating at three sperm banks over many years. The Guardian has helpfully tracked down this remarkable gentleman – who modestly estimates that the number is much smaller, around 200 — to find out what makes him tick.

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  • Is Football Becoming Too Nice?

    Is Football Becoming Too Nice?2

    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

    The Reason We Love The Nutcracker0

    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

    The ’60s Radicals Won the Culture War0

    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

    How Every Parent Can Combat Rising Teen Depression0

    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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