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  • What Will and Kate Teach Us About Earning Respect

    What Will and Kate Teach Us About Earning Respect0

    In recent days, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex (aka Prince Harry and Meghan Markle) have been under fire for blatant hypocrisy. After lecturing the populace about being environmentally friendly, the pair rode a private jet to their summer vacation destination, making their carbon footprint equal to that of Bigfoot’s. Their decision didn’t really surprise

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  • What We’re Giving Up by Abandoning Community

    What We’re Giving Up by Abandoning Community1

    • August 31, 2015

    In recent months I’ve been struck by a growing realization: it can sometimes be rather difficult to take an uninterrupted walk when you know a number of your neighbors. The fact is, stopping to pat Fred’s dog, getting hailed down by Carol to see her once-a-year blooming rose, and talking with Janet over the impending

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  • What We’re In For with Trump

    What We’re In For with Trump0

    I happened to catch most of Trump’s conference with business leaders this morning over breakfast. Here are my thoughts. If I’m being a typical Midwesterner/Rust Belter on this, apologies in advance; I can’t help where I’m from. Trump’s speech can be divided into four parts of roughly equal size. 25% of the things he said

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  • What We Wear Impacts Who We Are

    What We Wear Impacts Who We Are15

    Last week a young friend suggested lunch at a nearby café. I politely declined. Seeing her surprise, I explained that I’d eaten there once and wasn’t impressed with the food. But it was more than the mediocre dish they’d served. It was the owner of the establishment, who doubles as manager and chef. “The way

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  • What We Sacrifice in the Pursuit of Immortality

    What We Sacrifice in the Pursuit of Immortality0

    “Is the first person who will live to 150 alive today?” asked a recent Wall Street Journal article. The piece features biology Professor Steven Austad who contends that “today’s college students… can expect to live a century or more because their health will be unlike anything seen before in human history.” I had to suppress

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  • What We Misunderstand About the Nazis

    What We Misunderstand About the Nazis8

    In his insightful essay “We Misunderstood the Nazis” in The Free Press, Matti Friedman argues that the way we learn about the Holocaust has done little to prevent its reoccurrence. Thanks to billion-dollar investments in museums, documentaries, and school curricula, Westerners know all about the “logistics” of National Socialism: Zyklon B, death marches, cruel torture.

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