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  • How to Overcome Awkward Conversations During the Holidays

    How to Overcome Awkward Conversations During the Holidays0

    Out of the number of books I read for the first time this year, I’d have to say that Jane Austen’s Persuasion was probably one of my favorites. For those unfamiliar with the book, Persuasion centers around the life of Anne Elliot, a quiet, but intelligent, single woman in her late twenties. Surrounded by superficial

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  • How To Navigate Suffering With Wisdom

    How To Navigate Suffering With Wisdom3

    I have always been enamored by the book of Ecclesiastes. It is difficult to pin down precisely why this is, but it has something to do with how seemingly averse it is to the contemporary thesis that happiness is, or ought to be, the highest aspiration of the human experience. I do not subscribe to

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  • How to Make the Thrill of Love Return in Marriage

    How to Make the Thrill of Love Return in Marriage0

    Social media causes a lot of problems. We all use it. Yet we all love to hate it. Now it’s causing yet another unforeseen problem, The Wall Street Journal reports, namely in the realm of divorce. We’ve all seen a couple’s blossoming love in images shared on social media. But wait a few years, add

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  • How to Make Presidential Debates Serve Voters, Not Candidates

    How to Make Presidential Debates Serve Voters, Not Candidates0

    Presidential debates are not debates at all. They provide candidates with opportunities to deliver their own pre-scripted messages, largely unchallenged. Ideally, presidential debate scholars agree, these events should help voters identify which candidate they agree with most on key issues, and, as other academic debate coaches put it, see how a candidate would “make decisions,

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  • How to Make Health Care Unaffordable and Inaccessible

    How to Make Health Care Unaffordable and Inaccessible1

    Whether it’s Medicare for All or some other variant of a single-payer plan, the leading 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are in agreement that more government control will make health care more affordable and accessible. The presumption behind these plans is that there is currently too much freedom in the health care industry, and only more

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  • How to Make Friends as a Lonely Adult

    How to Make Friends as a Lonely Adult0

    Late this summer I met with several recent college graduates for lunch. We were chatting away when one of them fired off a question that caught me by surprise. “Annie,” this young lady asked, “what did you do to make friends?” I suddenly realized the situation these girls were in. They were on their own

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