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  • Don’t Have a ‘Merry Little Christmas’

    Don’t Have a ‘Merry Little Christmas’0

    I was sitting in my local coffee shop when “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” began playing over the café’s speaker. Perhaps because this Christmas is so fraught with fear and uncertainty, this song caught my attention. I pushed aside my other thoughts and gave my full attention to the music, hunting down the lyrics

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  • Don’t Gaslight Us on #BelieveWomen

    Don’t Gaslight Us on #BelieveWomen0

    Many of us were startled to open The New York Times last week and find ourselves accused of hijacking and weaponizing the phrase “believe all women.” According to journalist Susan Faludi, the phrase always has been “believe women,” and never has been associated with a demand for automatic and unquestioned belief that those who allege

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  • Don’t Forget to Sing

    Don’t Forget to Sing0

    I have a postcard on my office door with a Samuel Beckett quote I like on it. It reads, in my sanitized English translation, “When you are in it up to your neck, the only thing left to do is sing.” Even on relatively bad days, I am very, very far from being in it

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  • Don’t Find Yourself, Overcome Yourself

    Don’t Find Yourself, Overcome Yourself0

    Selves are not found; they are created. That’s the perennially valid message of some ancient Chinese philosophers, according to the book The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life, by Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh, a journalist with a PhD in East Asian history who studied under Puett. Puett, a Professor

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  • Don’t Feel Bad About Using the Self Checkout

    Don’t Feel Bad About Using the Self Checkout0

    Have you’ve seen a meme exhorting you not to use self-checkout because it impoverishes workers who are replaced by unfeeling scanners? There is no harm in making that choice. But if we remember our lessons from Frederic Bastiat, we can see why the rationale behind the campaign is absurd.  Why should we stop with the

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  • Don’t Expect Your Spouse to Make You ‘Happy’

    Don’t Expect Your Spouse to Make You ‘Happy’0

    When you make a commitment to marry someone, it shouldn’t be because you expect that person to make you ‘happy.’ Perhaps this sounds crazy. It seemingly runs counter to what much of our culture teaches us to hope for from marriage. But there it is. I have seen marriages break up for both a variety

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