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  • The Essential Life Lesson in the Series Finale of ‘The Office’

    The Essential Life Lesson in the Series Finale of ‘The Office’0

    If it’s a good comedy, we laugh with the characters, not at the characters. Joining with them in our common humanity, we have a window to our own foibles. Today, 14 years after its premiere, reruns of The Office remain enduringly popular. The Office entertains while it helps us see how we make life hard

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  • The Essential Ingredient for a Happy Life

    The Essential Ingredient for a Happy Life0

    Moving day is fast approaching for me, and until yesterday I was fretting about logistics. Boxes for packing up my books have been hard to come by, and I was stressing over who I could ask to help with the actual move. One friend was available, but another is recovering from surgery, while my middle

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  • The Epidemic of Woke Politicians

    The Epidemic of Woke Politicians0

    Every time there is a mass shooting, we’re all supposed to dispense with reason and common sense and embrace the proposition that laws can solve all of our problems. There’s a word for this: “panic.”   And it’s a panic made worse by politics in two ways.   The first way has to do with

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  • The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Guide to the Classics

    The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Guide to the Classics0

    “Forget death and seek life!” With these encouraging words, Gilgamesh, the star of the eponymous 4000-year-old epic poem, coins the world’s first heroic catchphrase. At the same time, the young king encapsulates the considerations of mortality and humanity that lie at the heart of the world’s most ancient epic. While much has changed since, the

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  • The Environmentalist’s Dream Came True With COVID

    The Environmentalist’s Dream Came True With COVID0

    Have you recently heard anything about the major existential threat to our lives? I don’t mean the exaggerated virality of the virus currently wreaking havoc with our globalized societies, but the endlessly dangerous impact of climate change? Of rising sea levels and volatile weather leading to crop failures and mass starvation and collapse of precious

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  • The Entrepreneur Who Became a Billionaire After Being Rejected by Facebook

    The Entrepreneur Who Became a Billionaire After Being Rejected by Facebook0

    Jan Koum had a rough upbringing. At 16, he immigrated from Europe to the United States with his mother and grandmother, who were fleeing political unrest and religious persecution. Jan’s mother got a job as a babysitter in California while Jan went to school and worked at a grocery store cleaning floors. His father planned

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