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In 'Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale,' the curtain falls on tradition
- Culture, Entertainment, Featured, Uncategorized
- September 19, 2025
Millennials, myself included, have a bad habit of complaining that #AdultingIsHard. A simple hashtag search of that on Twitter will get you literally thousands of results, even a few accounts with that claim as their usernames. It’s a trope so ingrained into my generation that it can be used almost anywhere. You finally graduated from
READ MORENo longer children but not yet adults, adolescents need opportunities to learn and prepare for their entrance into the broader society. But, as schooling increasingly extends the adolescent period and teenagers get dismissed as supposedly selfish and irresponsible, has society forgotten an important developmental need of our youth? As a developmental scientist who focuses on
READ MOREColin Kaepernick had a tough day in Chicago on Sunday. His week is not getting any better. On Wednesday, at a ceremony in Hawaii to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback found his conduct in the crosshairs of U.S. Pacific Command Commander Adm. Harry Harris. “You
READ MOREThere is a commercial familiar to anyone who grew up in the 1980s. It involves a white rat in a cage furiously attacking a pill. “Only one drug is so addictive nine out of ten laboratory rats will use it … and use it … and use it,” a raspy voice murmurs, “until dead.” The
READ MOREAmerica is on fire. Protestors are burning flags. Rioters are burning cars. And people are metaphorically burning bridges, rendering it impossible to speak across the chasm of political difference. It’s time to pause in burning down our national house. As the Talking Heads warn in their iconic song, “Watch out. You might get what you
READ MOREAdam Smith is best known for writing The Wealth of Nations, but in a way, his work in economics took a back seat to his moral philosophy. In fact, Smith thought that his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, was more important than his economic theory. It’s in this book, for example, that Smith
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