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  • 14 Nuggets of Wisdom from Wendell Berry

    14 Nuggets of Wisdom from Wendell Berry0

      Wendell Berry (b. 1934) combines knowledge and experience better than most intellectuals, having divided his time between writing and farming for much of his life. He is the author of more than 40 books of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, including such notable ones as The Unsettling of America and Hannah Coulter. He is known

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  • 10 Tips for Being a Better Conversationalist

    10 Tips for Being a Better Conversationalist0

    With the rise of cell phones, email, and text messaging, face-to-face conversational skills have declined. We know that digital communication is most likely here to stay. Yet, at the same time, many recognize that there is still an irreplaceable value to face-to-face conversation. So, how can we revive the art of conversation? The following 10

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  • War of the Worlds: How the Media “Creates” News

    War of the Worlds: How the Media “Creates” News0

    Last Friday marked the anniversary of Orson Welles’ famous radio play War of the Worlds, which used news bulletins to tell of an alien invasion on American soil. Like many Americans, I first heard this story as a little girl and was fascinated by the mass hysteria which supposedly broke out across the country when

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  • The Homogenization of America

    The Homogenization of America0

    On a trip to Oklahoma I arrived at the airport and was taken to a suburban retail area for a meal. Suddenly it occurred to me that I could very well have been back in any part of the United States. Wherever I go in the USA I find the same retail developments with the

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  • Remembering Fred Thompson: 8 Quotes

    Remembering Fred Thompson: 8 Quotes0

    Yesterday, former U.S. Senator Fred Thompson died at the age of 73. In addition to serving in the Senate for the state of Tennessee, Thompson was famous for his role as a lawyer in the Watergate hearings and his career as a character actor in film and television. In remembrance of Thompson, here are nine

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  • Preschoolers Increasingly Using Tablets without Supervision

    Preschoolers Increasingly Using Tablets without Supervision0

    Last December, while spending time with a classroom full of inner-city children, I struck up a conversation with 4-year-old twin boys. They proudly told me that they had each received a tablet for a Christmas gift. I was duly impressed – and alarmed. According to today’s New York Times, my alarm was justified, but my

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  • 6 Distressing Characteristics of the “Mass Man”

    6 Distressing Characteristics of the “Mass Man”0

    One of the most noteworthy critics of the modern age was the German academic (with a not-so-German name) Romano Guardini (1885-1968). Among others, his thoughts on technology and the environment have influenced Pope Francis, as was apparent in his recent encyclical Laudato Si. In his essay The End of the Modern World, Guardini claims that the rise

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  • “More Truly Educated Out of College Than In It.”

    “More Truly Educated Out of College Than In It.”0

    It seems you can’t turn around these days without seeing some type of article or list describing the top 10 ways to get into the best college or grad program. Such a mentality stems from the idea that true education is gained from an institution or organization. But by continually enforcing the idea that true

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  • This 1960s Greek Village Was Cut Off from the Modern World

    This 1960s Greek Village Was Cut Off from the Modern World0

    In Portrait of a Greek Mountain Village, anthropologist Juliet du Boulay offers a glimpse of how rural Greek people (and most people in the world) thought and lived before modernity had fully absorbed them. Du Boulay lived in a village known by the pseudonym of “Ambéli” for two years in the late 1960s. Though much of

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