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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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  • Don’t Culturally Appropriate Halloween—It’s Mine

    Don’t Culturally Appropriate Halloween—It’s Mine0

    People across America and beyond will dress up for Halloween on Monday, either to ask strangers for candy or as an excuse to imbibe ample quantities of spirits at a party. But before anyone dresses up, a little attention must first be paid to ensure proper Halloween protocols are observed. First, as Yale University made

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  • Don’t Cheer Woodrow Wilson’s Cancelation

    Don’t Cheer Woodrow Wilson’s Cancelation0

    First things first: Woodrow Wilson was a deplorable bigot and one of the worst presidents in American history. He re-segregated the federal government, glamorized the Ku Klux Klan, screened The Birth of a Nation at the White House, and opposed Reconstruction and black suffrage (Dylan Matthews has more on Wilson’s racism). In common with many

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  • Don’t Be Outraged by this Teacher’s Dating Advice. Pass it On!

    Don’t Be Outraged by this Teacher’s Dating Advice. Pass it On!0

    About a decade ago, my husband took me to dinner at the famous 21 Club in New York. The former speakeasy opened in 1930 and still has an old-fashioned air about it. After staring at the menu for a few minutes, I looked up puzzled. “Psst, I don’t see any prices,” I whispered. My husband

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