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  • Diversity Fiction Meets Culture-Clashing Truth

    Diversity Fiction Meets Culture-Clashing Truth0

    Homeland Elegies: A Novel, by Ayad Akhtar (Little, Brown & Co.; 368 pp., $28.00). Mark Twain wrote in his 1897 travel book, Following the Equator: “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” That saying came in handy as I read this book, described on its jacket as

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  • Diversity Can Inhibit Learning and Cognitive Growth, Study Says

    Diversity Can Inhibit Learning and Cognitive Growth, Study Says0

    Diversity, like equality of opportunity, is one of those positively valued, ‘sacred cow’ concepts in higher education. Yes, some have criticized it for only encompassing racial, ethnic and gender identity, not ideological persuasion. Others have objected that diversity is a vehicle for brainwashing students with liberal values. Nevertheless, the concept has survived in almost every

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  • Distractions Don’t Have to Control You

    Distractions Don’t Have to Control You0

    Did you reach for your smartphone shortly after awaking? If so, 12 minutes later, you may reach for your smartphone again. If you are a typical smartphone user, you will check your phone 80 times today and feel anxiety if your phone is out of reach. Arguing that constant smartphone usage promises “fulfillment and excitement,”

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  • Distinguishing Important Tasks from Urgent Ones Is the Secret of Success

    Distinguishing Important Tasks from Urgent Ones Is the Secret of Success0

     “Our brains tend to prioritize immediate satisfaction over long-term rewards,” reports Tim Herrera. Herrera writes, “Even if we know a larger, less-urgent task is vastly more consequential, we will instinctively choose to do a smaller, urgent task anyway.” President Dwight Eisenhower knew his attention could be hijacked. He observed, “I have two kinds of problems,

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  • Distinguished Prof: The ‘Whiteness of Pumpkins’ Has Become ‘Perilous’

    Distinguished Prof: The ‘Whiteness of Pumpkins’ Has Become ‘Perilous’1

    • October 13, 2016

    Lisa Powell, a postdoctoral fellow in British Columbia, and Elizabeth Engelhardt, Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies at the University of North Carolina, have just released an essay in a peer-reviewed journal that offers an analysis of race relations in America today. The title of their paper? “The Perilous Whiteness of Pumpkins.” Seriously. Listen, the jumping

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  • Distilleries Should Always Be Able to Make Hand Sanitizer

    Distilleries Should Always Be Able to Make Hand Sanitizer0

    As states across the country issued lockdown orders in the face of COVID-19, one type of business was almost uniformly deemed essential: liquor stores. For those attempting to work, homeschool kids, and stay home 24/7 without killing anyone, the continued operation of liquor stores and the distilleries that supply them was deeply appreciated. But in

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