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  • Being Offended is Part of Living in a Democracy, Comedian Says

    Being Offended is Part of Living in a Democracy, Comedian Says0

    The phrases “I’m offended” and “that’s offensive” are ones we hear fairly often today. Why? I’m not sure to be perfectly honest, and I’m probably ill-suited to answer the question, since there are very few things that offend me. One theory, posited by scholar Christina Hoff Sommers, suggests that in our culture today victimhood “confers

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  • Being Moral Means You Can Never Do Enough

    Being Moral Means You Can Never Do Enough0

    ‘I didn’t do enough.’ This is a conclusion we all hope to avoid, especially as our lives close. It is, perhaps, the ultimate regret. In the final scene of the movie Schindler’s List (1993), this regret is Oskar Schindler’s. Looking into the faces of the hundreds of Jews he saved from the Nazi concentration camps,

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  • Being Intelligent Doesn’t Require You To Be a Jerk

    Being Intelligent Doesn’t Require You To Be a Jerk0

    Intellectual types are usually kind of jerks, right? At least, that’s the prevalent stereotype. We know that Mark Zuckerberg screwed over his good friend Eduardo Saverin. We’ve heard that Jeff Bezos of Amazon delivers some harsh insults to people in meetings. There are numerous complaints from professors that many of their academic colleagues are unpleasant

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  • Being Emotional Isn’t a Form of Debate

    Being Emotional Isn’t a Form of Debate0

    Discourse, especially in schools, is miserable these days. As Randall Smith, the Scanlan Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, argues, there are only three options when it comes to uncomfortable topics, “Non-judgmentalism, furious indignation, or ironic detachment.” How he describes his experiences teaching at the college level goes a long

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  • Being Emotional Is Not an Argument

    Being Emotional Is Not an Argument0

    Discourse, especially in schools, is miserable these days. As Randall Smith, the Scanlan Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, argues, there are only three options when it comes to uncomfortable topics, “Non-judgmentalism, furious indignation, or ironic detachment.” How he describes his experiences teaching at the college level goes a long way

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  • Being ‘Wise’ is better than Being ‘Smart’

    Being ‘Wise’ is better than Being ‘Smart’1

    David Freedman reports in this month’s issue of The Atlantic that there’s a “war on stupid people” in America today: “As recently as the 1950s, possessing only middling intelligence was not likely to severely limit your life’s trajectory. IQ wasn’t a big factor in whom you married, where you lived, or what others thought of you.

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