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  • The Euro-American Roots of Pumpkin Spice

    The Euro-American Roots of Pumpkin Spice14

    Pumpkin spice and everything nice, that’s what basic white girls are made of! She’s wearing plaid, cute boots, and walking through autumn leaves to a pumpkin patch or apple orchard. And most importantly, come mid-October, she’s unabashedly carrying the unmistakable takeout coffee cup filled with pumpkin spice latte. She is also hailed as laughable, ditzy,

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  • The Ethical Principle of ‘Epikeia’

    The Ethical Principle of ‘Epikeia’2

    It’s 2 a.m. and Claire has been stuck at a red light for five minutes. She knows that it’s against the law to run a red light. However, no other cars are in sight, and it seems ridiculous to wait for the light to turn green. Should she run the red light and continue her

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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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