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Religion or Party 0
- October 16, 2018
American politics suffers a dearth of prudent, clear-eyed thinking. Theoretically, in a representative democracy each of us should examine the political world and support the person and the party that promises to fight for the policies that best match our needs. Few of us probably conform to this ideal, however, and instead our party identities
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A Morning with Big Brother 0
- Culture
- October 16, 2018
I have long since broken the habit of watching television. We don’t have TV in the house and I relish all the good things that fill the time that would otherwise have been wasted in watching it: Conversation; unhurried dinners at the table with my wife and children; conversation; reading books with my daughter; reading
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How to Prepare for Bad News? Good literature and art.0
- Culture
- October 16, 2018
Everyone knows there are good and bad ways to react to bad news, setbacks, sorrows, even tragedy. We can despair or rage; or we can remain calm and persevere, even as we weep bitter tears. But compared with other difficult undertakings in life, reacting to bad news and tragedies can be more vexing because it’s
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Why the Soviets Would Have Sent Kanye West to a Mental Hospital 0
- Culture
- October 15, 2018
President Trump has had some pretty theatrical meetings during his tenure in the Oval Office, and his time with Kanye West was no exception. The event created loads of publicity and commentary from both the left and the right. One of these commenters was Cenk Uygur, the well-known host of The Young Turks online news
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UN Climate Change Report: A Choice between ‘Mad Max and Hunger Games’0
- October 15, 2018
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) this week released a special report detailing all the ways climate change is predicted to wreak havoc on humans. The report is about 800 pages long, so I’ll offer a summary to save you some time: Global temperatures today are 1.0°C above pre-industrial temperatures. We’re seeing an increase in
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Three Things a Man Should Never Do on a First Date 4
- Culture
- October 15, 2018
“There’s only one thing worse than being single, and that’s dating.” A good friend of mine uttered this cri de coeur more than a decade ago. She survived. She is now happily married with kids – as am I. But we both look back on our time in the dating scene as low-points in our
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