Culture

Your New Year’s Resolutions Fail Because You’re Not Listening 0
- Culture
- January 2, 2018
If you are like me, you’ve resolved to make changes in your life only to experience the frustration of sliding back into old habits. Knowing you need to make a change, you’ve set your goal. On Day 1, all goes well. By Day 2, the pull of old habits is strong. By dint of
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Our Narcissistic Age Could Use Some ‘Casablanca’ Values 0
- Culture
- January 2, 2018
Casablanca never could have been made today. The classic movie, which turned seventy-five this year, features themes that would never fly in today’s world: that personal happiness is not the most important goal; that feelings ought to be ignored at times; and that romantic love isn’t always worth pursuing. Talk about retro values. In case
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Have a Low IQ? The Government Can Take Your Child.0
- Culture
- December 29, 2017
Amy Fabbrini and Eric Ziegler of Redmond, Oregon, did something this Christmas that many parents take for granted: they celebrated it with their child. The couple’s 10-month-old son Hunter had been in foster care almost since the day he was born. But last week, The Oregonian reports, a judge declared that the state had not
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‘The Last Jedi’ is Awful and Disney is Ruining Star Wars 0
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- December 29, 2017
In 1964, shortly after the release of Disney’s adaptation of P. L. Travers’ charming 1934 book Mary Poppins, J.R.R. Tolkien sent a letter to one Miss J.L. Curry of Stanford University. In the letter, Tolkien complained about the corrupting influence Walt Disney’s movies had on literary works. “Though in most of the ‘pictures’ proceeding from his
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Should Parents Allow Kids to Fight?0
- Culture
- December 29, 2017
While dining with friends the other evening, the sibling squabbles we had as children came up as a topic of conversation. Laughingly, one friend recounted how her father, tired of hearing the bickering between herself and another sibling, calmly suggested they go outside, get some boxing gloves, and settle the argument that way. “But she
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Why So Many American Children Respect Nothing 0
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- December 28, 2017
For the last 20 years or so, there has been one regular item on my Christmas list. That item is the annual anthology of old-fashioned Christmas stories entitled Christmas in My Heart. The series has been running for over a quarter of a century now, and even if I don’t ask for the latest edition,
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