Culture

What Role Genes Play in Culture 5
- Culture, Featured, Science
- September 11, 2024
Are all disparities between ethnic groups due to prejudice? From black track athletes to many Americans’ hesitation around spicy food, according to many intellectuals, the disparity is caused by racism. But is this rational—or even biologically accurate? Everyone agrees that there is lots of cultural variety between ethnic groups. What is rarely mentioned is that
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‘Diversity’ Doesn’t Include Disabled Veterans Like Me 6
- Culture, Education
- September 11, 2024
At college campuses nationwide, the newest students are starting class, but I’m not among them. Many medical schools rejected my application, and when I asked why, several told me that my service in our nation’s armed forces didn’t matter, and that I should have spent more time proving my commitment to “diversity” and “equity.” I
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How Big Agriculture Damages Local Communities 0
- Culture, Featured, MomThink
- September 10, 2024
If you drive through most rural areas in our country, you’re likely to see some old, abandoned farmsteads, lying broken like great bones in the mottled landscape. The houses are grayed and weathered, with shattered windows that give way only to darkness, the whole structure leaning out of kilter as though setting itself against a
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Viktor Frankl and the Search for Meaning 3
- Culture, Featured, Literature, Philosophy
- September 9, 2024
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. —Viktor Frankl Are human beings primarily motivated by sex and power? The first two great psychoanalytic schools, one founded by Sigmund Freud and the other
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‘If the Devil Can’t Make You Bad, He’ll Make You Busy’2
- Culture, Featured, MomThink
- September 6, 2024
The noon sun beamed high in the sky as I began warming up my daughter’s team in the outfield grass. It was the start of another 12U softball Saturday in the Chicago suburbs. As I lined up the girls, I watched our head coach pull up in his minivan about 15 minutes late for warm-ups.
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Can Federalism Stop a New Civil War?3
- Culture, Featured, Politics
- September 6, 2024
Violence hangs over the 2024 election. Well before the botched assassination of President Trump, half of the country already expected to see a civil war within the next few years. Riots have become commonplace—as have outbursts of the oldest form of hate. But in a sense, none of this is surprising. It is the natural
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