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  • Why You Should Watch ‘Cobra Kai’ Instead of ‘The Last Jedi’

    Why You Should Watch ‘Cobra Kai’ Instead of ‘The Last Jedi’0

    The latest instalment in the Star Wars franchise was a huge disappointment to die-hard fans. The movie’s sins are too numerous to recount here, but they amount to a complete abandonment of everything that made the original series a success in the first place. “Star Wars is dead; The Last Jedi killed it” is the

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  • Why You Should Think Twice About a Master’s Degree If You Live in These States (See Charts)

    Why You Should Think Twice About a Master’s Degree If You Live in These States (See Charts)0

    A few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a young lady in her early twenties. Having graduated with her bachelor’s degree several months before, she was now reflecting on her current job prospects and her future ambitions. “I’m kind of thinking about going to grad school,” she confessed. Not wanting to dampen her ambition,

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  • Why You Should Talk to People You Disagree With About Politics

    Why You Should Talk to People You Disagree With About Politics13

    If you talked to friends or family about politics over Thanksgiving, you might not have changed each other’s minds. But don’t be discouraged – and consider talking with them again as the holiday season continues. As a scholar of political dialogue, for the past decade I have been studying conversations between people who disagree about politics. What

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  • Why You Should Stay in Your Hometown

    Why You Should Stay in Your Hometown0

    On the whole, it would appear to be for the best that the great majority of human beings should go on living in the place in which they were born. —T.S. Eliot, Notes towards the Definition of Culture Americans have never learned to cherish permanence. Alexis de Tocqueville once said that an American will build

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  • Why You Should Spend More Money on Experiences Than Things

    Why You Should Spend More Money on Experiences Than Things0

    The pursuit of happiness is something that I’d say about 99 percent of the people on this planet are chasing after. Happiness is at the foundation of why we do anything, right? Every single choice we make in life will be and has been based on how we’re feeling in the moment.   There’s a

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  • Why You Should Read and Write Poetry

    Why You Should Read and Write Poetry0

    In this dull utilitarian age, there seems little less useful than poetry. What good is it? There are few who get rich writing or publishing poetry, and when it comes to practicality, it is practically good for nothing. On second consideration, however, reading and writing poetry is extremely practical, and because our techno-utilitarian age is

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