Materialism Increasingly Fails to Answer Life’s Biggest Questions
TREND #5 As explained in prior issues, our major life decisions and priorities are determined largely by our fundamental values
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Values
The Unsettling Challenges of Drug Decriminalization
TREND #5 Like so many ideas which make sense in the abstract, legalization of drugs is turning out to have
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Building a “New & Improved” American Expert Class
TREND #1 We’ve argued that the “postwar American consensus” is coming to an end. Yet we recognize that such prevailing
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Will the Walls (Separating Church and State) Come Tumbling Down?
TREND # 4 America’s culture is arguably a reflection of Judeo-Christian values as summarized in the Ten Commandments. This includes
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Transforming America’s Governance Framework
TREND #2 The United States government was designed in the 1780s to be “a constitutional, Federal republic.” As such, it
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American Conservatism is Reborn
TREND #1 With the American Postwar consensus, born in the New Deal and fully embodied in the Great Society, now
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America’s Demographic Advantage Narrows
TREND #2 The United States’ global preeminence owes a great deal to demographics; that includes age, education, gender, marital status,
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