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  • How to Transform a Life Stuck in a Rut

    How to Transform a Life Stuck in a Rut0

    Has a New Year’s resolution ever made a permanent difference in your life? Maybe you stuck with it for the first week of the year. But dang it, January is cold. Some mornings it’s hard to just get out of your warm bed, let alone trudge to the gym, write a blog post, or meditate

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  • How to Tell the Difference Between Real Education and Propaganda

    How to Tell the Difference Between Real Education and Propaganda90

    The other day I ran across a passage from That Hideous Strength which seems oddly applicable to our time. A dystopian novel written by C. S. Lewis at the close of World War II, That Hideous Strength finds one of its main characters, Mark Studdock, working for N.I.C.E., an organization which pulls the strings in

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  • How to Tell if Your Kid’s ‘Fussy Eating’ Phase is Normal

    How to Tell if Your Kid’s ‘Fussy Eating’ Phase is Normal0

    If you have a child who is a fussy eater, you’re not alone. Almost half of all children will go through a fussy eating period in the early years. Rest assured, refusal of foods by young children is a normal stage of development. In fact, food fussiness ensured the survival of our “cave-man” ancestors. Preference

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  • How to Tell if Someone is Lying to You: 6 Signs to Look for

    How to Tell if Someone is Lying to You: 6 Signs to Look for0

    In an era increasingly described as “post truth,” classifying a lie is no simple task. Recognizing deceptive behavior, however, is another story. Pamela Meyer, a certified fraud examiner and self-identified “lie spotter,” says humans lie a lot. (In fact, a person is typically lied to between 10 and 200 times per day, she says.) But

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  • How To Talk to Someone Who Wants To Put You In A Gulag

    How To Talk to Someone Who Wants To Put You In A Gulag0

    A few months ago, I was having a few beers with TAC managing editor Matt Purple, and we ended up pondering the great question of our times: why did people vote for Trump? After tossing around the usual answers (a reaction against Hillary’s hawkishness, his carefully curated aura of success, post-industrial blue collar angst), Matt told me

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  • How to Survive Life in Our Looney Bin

    How to Survive Life in Our Looney Bin2

    In 1828, utopian socialist Robert Owen is supposed to have remarked to his business associate William Allen, “All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.” For obvious reasons, today we substitute mad or crazy for queer in that quotation, but the meaning remains the same. And despite

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