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  • How Our Culture Disempowers Teens

    How Our Culture Disempowers Teens0

    Teenagers are extraordinarily capable.  Louis Braille invented his language for the blind when he was 15. Mary Shelley, daughter of libertarian feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, wrote Frankenstein when she was 18. As a young teen, Anne Frank documented her life of hiding from the Nazis during World War II. Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Prize at 17. The Impact

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  • How Our Culture Came to Scorn Physical Work

    How Our Culture Came to Scorn Physical Work0

    As economic prosperity continues to spread, and as the American economy completes its transition into the age of information, manual labor is increasingly cast down in the popular imagination. When our youth navigate and graduate from high school, they receive a range of pressures to attend four-year colleges and pursue various “white-collar” careers, whether in

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  • How Our Contradictions Make Us Human

    How Our Contradictions Make Us Human0

    Have you ever wondered how many contradictory thoughts you have in a day? How many times your thoughts contradict your actions? How often your feelings oppose your principles and beliefs? Most of the time, we don’t see our own contradictions – it’s often easier to observe such inconsistencies in others. But you are as full

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  • How Orwell Foresaw the Disintegration of Our Language

    How Orwell Foresaw the Disintegration of Our Language0

    “In our time it is broadly true that political writing is bad writing.” This is the takeaway quote from George Orwell’s essay “Politics and the English Language,” which has become popular as a guide for writers throughout the English-speaking world.  In the essay Orwell advocates a plainspoken, straightforward and no-nonsense writing style.  He heaps scorn

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  • How Orwell Became the Prophet Who Foresaw Our Future

    How Orwell Became the Prophet Who Foresaw Our Future0

    There is something ghostly and ghastly about the resurrection of British author George Orwell in contemporary politics, especially in the reaction to the disruption and transformation of public policy now taking place. Orwell was a mid-20th century journalist, essayist and novelist who was an early anti-fascist of the far left until the Spanish civil war

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  • How Online Dating is Saving Marriage (and Making Society Less Segregated)

    How Online Dating is Saving Marriage (and Making Society Less Segregated)0

    The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) recently banned an ad from online dating site eHarmony which assured those looking for love that it was a “scientifically proven” matching system. The company matches users according to their personality, using their own data on existing relationships. According to the ASA, however, eHarmony failed to demonstrate that its

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