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  • Good News: Some Reasons to Celebrate the New Year

    Good News: Some Reasons to Celebrate the New Year0

    Let’s jump into 2020 by looking at some good news. In The Spectator, Matt Ridley reports we’ve just had the best decade in human history. He kicks off his article with this paragraph: Let nobody tell you that the second decade of the 21st century has been a bad time. We are living through the greatest improvement in

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  • Good News for This Year’s Graduates

    Good News for This Year’s Graduates24

    Dear soon-to-be graduates, The big day is right around the corner. You may need to wrap up some final exams, or turn in that last composition, but in the next few weeks you’ll be handed a diploma and step into the next stage of your life. Maybe you’re headed from high school into the work

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  • Good Luck Deciphering This Academic Gibberish!

    Good Luck Deciphering This Academic Gibberish!0

    • August 6, 2015

    There is a special drudgery to much of academic writing these days. If you think some of it is incomprehensible, it is. But to the writer and a select circle, you are too stupid to understand it. So which one is closer to the truth? Back in the 1990s, Denis Dutton, a respected philosopher out

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  • Good Life, Good Death

    Good Life, Good Death11

    Another Ash Wednesday has come and gone. On this day, many Christians attend church, where a priest or a pastor marks their foreheads with a cross made of ashes, saying, “Repent, and believe in the Gospels,” or more traditionally, “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” The latter injunction, which derives

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  • Good job, REI!

    Good job, REI!0

    Yesterday, REI sent out an e-mail to its members regarding Black Friday shopping. Here it is: This Black Friday the co-op is doing something different. We’re closing all 143 of our stores. Instead of reporting to work, we’re paying our employees to do what we love most—be outside. We want you, our members, to be the

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  • Good Guys: Celebrating Men and Honoring Manhood

    Good Guys: Celebrating Men and Honoring Manhood0

    Men increasingly have a tough road stretching out ahead of them. No longer does it seem that strong and virtuous manhood is celebrated and honored. Instead, it is often condemned and shamed. What better way to buck the trend and grab a book full of adventure and entertainment, a story to whisk us away from

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