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  • Frozen II: Saved by Blessedly Superficial Viewers

    Frozen II: Saved by Blessedly Superficial Viewers0

    Of the first Frozen movie, I probably wrote half a dozen articles. What was that magic ingredient that made it a plus-billion-dollar blockbuster, a culture-rocking achievement, a life-defining event for a whole generation of kids and their parents?  That’s a huge question. You can list every ingredient you want: the amazing characters, the charmed music,

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  • From Wants to Wealth: Thoughts on Contentment

    From Wants to Wealth: Thoughts on Contentment5

    My Pennsylvania-born mother owned a black napkin holder sporting an Amish woman and an inscription: “Ve grow too soon alt und too late schmart” (“We grow too soon old and too late smart”). Recently, I had reason to remember that adage. Because my children have trouble figuring out what to give me for my birthday,

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  • From Time Immemorial: Questions and Answers About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

    From Time Immemorial: Questions and Answers About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict6

    Over the weekend, the world was shocked by news of the Hamas attack on Israel, with a massacre against partygoers, brutal house-to-house killings and kidnappings, and the deaths of at least 22 Americans. Now the world braces as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declares war against Hamas, vowing “mighty vengeance” for the over 1,300 Israelis

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  • From Russia with Love?

    From Russia with Love?0

    The buzz word of Barack Obama’s Presidential Election Campaign, oh so many eons ago, was “change”. What Americans want, we were told, was “change”. Now as the sun sets on the Obama-Nation we move forward into a New Year with a new leader of a very different ilk at the helm. America, it seems, will

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  • From Dummies to Blankies – When Should You Worry About Your Child’s Attachment to Comfort Items?

    From Dummies to Blankies – When Should You Worry About Your Child’s Attachment to Comfort Items?0

    Many parents will feel a twinge of concern if their five-year-old can’t sleep without his dummy or their teenager refuses to throw out the tattered blanket she’s had since she was a baby. The topic of comfort objects is hotly debated, with some arguing that the attachment to objects from babyhood is childish, unnecessary or

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  • From College Indoctrination to Corporate Intolerance

    From College Indoctrination to Corporate Intolerance0

    A day after an internal email by a Google employee was leaked to the press, a combination of ideological intolerance and scientific illiteracy led Google to fire James Damore for “perpetuating gender stereotypes.” On the day he was fired, Quillette.com published several brief essays by academics on the science of sex differences, mostly vindicating his characterization of

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