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  • What Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Jungle Book’ Gets Right About Rules

    What Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Jungle Book’ Gets Right About Rules0

    The latest issue of National Geographic arrived at our house with a dazzling cover story on Yellowstone National Park, full of images of grizzly bears, wolves, elk, and bison. Yellowstone is a wild place “filled with wonders—fierce animals, deep canyons, scalding waters—that are magnificent to behold but fretful to engage,” and the issue asks whether

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  • What Royal Fashion Teaches About Compromise

    What Royal Fashion Teaches About Compromise0

    It all came down to hosiery. While the world was preoccupied with COVID-19 and the protests sweeping America, a minor royal mystery was solved. News outlets had long reported that a few days before her 2018 wedding to Britain’s Prince Harry, Meghan Markle made Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, cry over something. The spat took

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  • What Romanticism and Taylor Swift Have in Common

    What Romanticism and Taylor Swift Have in Common3

    Wherever you turn today, you’ll hear about Taylor Swift—her albums, tours, and dating life. For better or for worse, she has a sizeable impact on our culture. It’s no surprise, then, that her most recent album, The Tortured Poets Department, has hit a record number of sales, with 2.61 million debut units as the “best

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  • What Role Genes Play in Culture

    What Role Genes Play in Culture5

    Are all disparities between ethnic groups due to prejudice? From black track athletes to many Americans’ hesitation around spicy food, according to many intellectuals, the disparity is caused by racism. But is this rational—or even biologically accurate? Everyone agrees that there is lots of cultural variety between ethnic groups. What is rarely mentioned is that

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  • What Roger Bannister Taught Us About Human Achievement

    What Roger Bannister Taught Us About Human Achievement1

    When I was a young boy, one of my most cherished books was One Hundred Greatest Sports Heroes. The pages were filled with heroes’ accomplishments. Often, having overcome great adversity, these sports heroes exhibited great resiliency. Today, I wonder what other mindset traits contributed to their success? Roger Bannister, the first man to run a

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  • What Robin Williams Taught Us About Kindness

    What Robin Williams Taught Us About Kindness0

    Kate Osher, a writer and attorney, last year told a story about tragedy and the kindness of a famous stranger. Osher’s husband had committed suicide. Following his wishes, she was on a “travel quest” to scatter his ashes in places that had touched his life. Intending to fly with a Tupperware container of her husband’s

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