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Most Young Men are Lost and Unimpressive. Here's Why.
A compilation of great content about why men are struggling and what we can do about it.
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The Problem With Video Games (Essential Excerpts)
What video games do to us and why China has banned online games outside of a few specified times.
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Porn, Pop-Tarts, and the Infinite Scroll: Preparing Kids to Thrive Amid Supernormal Stimuli
"Supernormal stimuli" is an obscure term, but it may be the most important thing for children, parents, and citizens to understand about the modern…
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Remaining Human Against the Machine (Essential Excerpts)
Essential excerpts on the decline of communities, human devolution, and how standards and rites of passage help us overcome these threats.
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Do Our Kids Need a Moral Equivalent of War?
The evidence of human devolution and why it is more important than ever that we set the bar for ourselves, our communities, and our children.
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Money Doesn’t Make You Happy, But Religion, Marriage, and Good Neighbors Do (Essential Excerpts)
Startling insights about the dollar value of life choices and the dramatic implications these should have on how we parent and structure society.
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The Power of the Village
Parent peer pressure, a letter on tech norms that schools should send to parents, and what parents can do when they don't have the support of their…
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Overcoming Willful Ignorance (Essential Excerpts)
Teens begging us to wake up, and lessons from Martin Luther King Jr. and Arthur Koestler.
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