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The Women Dancing Alone on the Road to Miserable 5
- Culture, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- April 4, 2025
“Why are Liberal Women so Unhappy?” Lucian Conway asks in a recent article. To answer, he begins by reviewing polls revealing the far greater rates of depression and dissatisfaction among liberal women versus their conservative counterparts. Conway also touches on studies demonstrating that young left-wing females also suffer more psychological problems. This issue is larger than
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The Social Media Jam: Why Too Many Choices Leave Us Feeling Stuck 2
- Economics, Featured, Uncategorized
- April 3, 2025
There’s a famous experiment involving jams. Not problems, and not what old people call music, but the third thing: sweetened and thickened fruit spreads. The experiment famously showed that at some point having additional choices is overwhelming, and actually appears to make people worse off. There were actually three studies, though for some reason the “jam experiment” is
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The 3 Simple Components to Raising an Intelligent Child 1
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- April 2, 2025
A friend of mine recently told me that his daughter got an F on her college paper. “Please don’t tell me she used AI to write it,” I said in disbelief. “Well, no, she didn’t … but everyone else in the class did,” he replied, going on to say that the instructor accidentally lumped his
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April Is National Poetry Month, and We’re All Invited to the Party 7
- Culture, Education, Featured, Literature, Uncategorized
- April 1, 2025
“April is the cruelest month,” begins T. S. Eliot’s poem, “The Waste Land.” Literal-minded folks living in Minnesota in January or Alabama in August might get a few chuckles from that line. Cruelty and chuckles aside, April is also National Poetry Month (NPM). Initiated in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets, “National Poetry Month
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It’s Time to Reclaim America’s Cultural Literacy 7
- Culture, Education, Featured, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- March 31, 2025
President Donald Trump signed an executive order recently calling for the dismantling of the Department of Education (ED), a process that will still require an act of Congress, leaving his critics aghast and hyperbolically claiming that he is trying to end education itself in America. In fact, he is trying to rescue it. “The experiment
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Boys Will Be Boys … or Will They?12
- Education, Featured, Literature, Uncategorized
- March 28, 2025
In January, my young friend Anna and I inventoried authors by gender on the “New Fiction” shelves of our public library. That count came to 123 novels and short story collections written by women, 64 authored by men. The disparity came as no thunderbolt to me, as I’d noticed for several years the number of
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