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Some might say that creativity is only for the chosen ones. But we don’t agree with that. Everyone can be creative. It’s only a matter of finding the right way to wake that creativity. A method that’s going to be the best for you. People are different. Each of us has our own character. We
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Commentary about the coronavirus is endless. Those with anti-China and anti-trade mindsets bash China, those with anti-Trump agendas bash the president’s response, and those with a big-government bias are using the crisis to argue for spending more money. The etiology of the disease is uncertain, with cases showing up in Americans who didn’t travel abroad
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At a reception a bit ago, a Baby Boomer asked, “Will the Millennials be able to get their sh*t together?” If you interact with Boomers or older Americans, especially those hiring and managing Millennials, you’ll hear it a lot. There’s certainly some truth to the idiosyncrasies occasionally displayed by Millennials about wanting high-pay straight out
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The decline in reading in America is a troubling fact, so a social media trend that encourages people to frequent bookstores and read well into the night should be a welcome one, right? Yet “BookTok,” a TikTok term that refers to a community of mostly women who read dark, sexually-explicit fantasy novels, is anything but
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A New Zealand bookstore stopped selling Jordan Peterson’s book in light of the Christchurch mosque shootings, but continues offering “Mein Kampf.” Management at Whitcoulls, one of the largest bookstores in New Zealand, said it would be wrong to support Peterson by selling “12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos” in light of “some extremely disturbing material
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Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody, by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay (Pitchstone Publishing; 352 pp., $27.95). To understand wokeness, I often ask students to explain why they add the word “social” to “justice.” They have yet to provide a satisfactory answer. My subsequent requests for
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