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  • Five Surprising Public Figures Supporting Free Speech Over Transgender Wokeness

    Five Surprising Public Figures Supporting Free Speech Over Transgender Wokeness0

    University disputes have always tended to descend into bitter words, perhaps because the stakes are so small. In his Preface to Shakespeare, the great 18th Century scholar Samuel Johnson observed that “when the truth to be investigated is so near to inexistence, as to escape attention, its bulk is to be enlarged by rage and exclamation.”

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  • Five Suggestions for Having a Successful College Career

    Five Suggestions for Having a Successful College Career0

    In his widely discussed book Excellent Sheep, William Deresiewicz ponders why the interests and imagined possibilities of so many students tend to narrow rather than expand during higher education. As freshmen, he notes, many enter with big plans to be poets, statesmen, teachers, filmmakers, or whatever, but are funneled into narrow tracks of career options

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  • Five Simple Dating Tips Today’s Young People Have Forgotten

    Five Simple Dating Tips Today’s Young People Have Forgotten0

    Professor Kerry Cronin and her famous dating class at Boston College are back in the news. This time it is Elizabeth Bernstein of The Wall Street Journal who unpacks Dr. Cronin’s class, the young Generation Z students who take it, and the reasons why such a course has become oddly necessary. Interestingly, Cronin’s class isn’t

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  • Five Rules for Finding Purpose in Life

    Five Rules for Finding Purpose in Life0

    Today’s world is so full of fools who have turned the world into a chaotic mess, that the most basic, common-sense statements become nuggets of profound wisdom. I almost stood up and cheered when I came across one of these the other day. The statement in question was made by Abigail Shrier, an Oxford and

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  • Five Reasons Why Being Kind Makes You Feel Good – According to Science

    Five Reasons Why Being Kind Makes You Feel Good – According to Science0

    Everybody can appreciate acts of kindness. But when it comes to explaining why we do them, people often take one of two extreme positions. Some think kindness is something completely selfless that we do out of love and care, while others believe it is just a tool that we cunningly use to become more popular

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  • Five Reasons to Protect Recess After COVID-19

    Five Reasons to Protect Recess After COVID-190

    Once children return to school for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic upended everything, they will most likely spend less time on school grounds. And as educational leaders decide how to schedule elementary school students’ days, they see catching students up on math, English and other academic subjects as a top priority. In our

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