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Cicero’s 5 Steps to a Good Conversation
- Uncategorized, Culture, Featured, History, Philosophy, Western Civilization
- May 13, 2026

Most kids’ shows today are pretty much twaddle. However, in moments of exhaustion and weakness, I let my boys watch the occasional age-appropriate movie or TV show. But I usually find myself having some ‘splainin to do with them afterwards. That’s because, more often than not, they have just watched something in which the female
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“Being informed” has been regarded as one of the highest virtues in the post-Enlightenment era of the West. And for the majority of this era, “being informed” has largely meant following the news and current events on a daily basis. So much did the ritual of checking the news each morning and evening become part
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‘Be yourself’ is a catchy Audioslave song. It’s also one of the most ubiquitous clichés in modern society. Like so many clichés, many of us have probably told someone “just be you” or “be yourself” without actually thinking what the words mean. The truth is, “be yourself” can have different meanings and applications. In some ways,
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During a recent move, I came across a copy of a 2021 letter I’d sent to my grandchildren. According to their parents, my older grandkids, then roughly ages eight to 16, were troubled and confused by the restrictions of the Covid pandemic and the bitter political divisions evident in the 2020 presidential race. In the
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Demography nerds assiduously follow the data popping up about fast-ageing societies, their loss of dynamism and prospects of population collapse. With each successive generation significantly smaller than the last, we know where we’re headed. While population collapse is an environmentalist’s dream, it is an unfolding nightmare for humanity at large. The world’s economic engine, the
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On the occasion of World Mental Health Day last week, 33-year-old actress Ruby Rose opened up about her early childhood trauma, mental disorders, and attempted suicides in an Instagram post. She wrote: View this post on Instagram Today is world mental health
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