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  • E.B. White’s Forgotten Story About the Tyranny of Good Intentions

    E.B. White’s Forgotten Story About the Tyranny of Good Intentions0

    E.B. White, the author of Charlotte’s Web and co-author of The Elements of Style, once wrote a story that aptly demonstrates the folly of central planning. White, a Maine farmer who wrote for The New Yorker and Harper’s, saw the story turned into an animated short, which he narrated 36 years after its publication. In “The Family that Dwelt Apart” – published in The New

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  • Violence by Women Against Men Is Rising in the UK

    Violence by Women Against Men Is Rising in the UK0

    Domestic violence by women toward family members has risen twice as fast as those by men in the United Kingdom. According to statistics obtained by the Sunday Telegraph under freedom of information legislation, female perpetrators now account for 28 percent of cases of domestic violence – compared to 19 percent a decade ago.  In a disturbing column in The Telegraph Celia

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  • Reddit Is a Window Into the American Nightmare

    Reddit Is a Window Into the American Nightmare0

    The Internet, among other things, is a compendium of human nature; an emergent portrait of everything that we are. Discussion forums in particular, most especially Reddit, are an endless encyclopedia encompassing all of humanity’s creativity, kindness, brutality, eccentricity, and boredom. Reddit can occasionally inspire, and the right corners of the site can teach you a

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  • Not the School We Knew: Six Facts About American Education

    Not the School We Knew: Six Facts About American Education0

    Most of us have our own life experiences to draw from when thinking about school, but things have changed a little (or a lot!) since we were last in a classroom. Imagine your neighbor Caroline said her son loves the magnet elementary school he switched to in August. You might be perplexed as images of

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  • Kobe Bryant’s ‘Letter to My Younger Self’ Holds a Lesson for Us All

    Kobe Bryant’s ‘Letter to My Younger Self’ Holds a Lesson for Us All0

    After his storied NBA career but before his tragic death at the age of 41, Kobe Bryant wrote a letter to himself. His 17-year-old self, to be precise. By this time, Bryant had accumulated five NBA Championship rings and a net worth of $680 million. But it wasn’t just material things Bryant had acquired. The

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  • How Mini Sabbaths Will Save Your Brain

    How Mini Sabbaths Will Save Your Brain0

    Have humans become an indoor species? Given that Americans spend, on average, 93 percent of their time indoors, it would seem that we are indeed suffering from what some call “nature deficit disorder.” We don’t need a fancy term to realize we might benefit from spending more time outdoors. Getting out for a gentle walk

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  • The Loss of American Civic Pride

    The Loss of American Civic Pride0

    The wonderful feeling of striking the ball just so and seeing it fly from your bat. The wind in your face as you fly around the bases. The giddiness of scoring the winning run for your hometown team as your friends and neighbors cheer you on. Baseball: America’s pastime, and one of the many ways

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  • How Drag Queen Story Hour Expanded Across America

    How Drag Queen Story Hour Expanded Across America0

    Drag Queen Story Hours started out as niche events on the West Coast, but these events – aimed at children as young as age 3 – have spread to libraries and schools across the United States, dividing local communities. These story hours are “just what they sound like,” Drag Queen Story Hour’s official website states: drag queens reading to children.

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  • Hate Cancel Culture? Blame Social Media Algorithms

    Hate Cancel Culture? Blame Social Media Algorithms0

    “Cancel culture” has become so pervasive that even former President Barack Obama has weighed in on the phenomenon, describing it as an overly judgmental approach to activism that does little to bring about change. For the uninitiated, here’s a quick primer on the phenomenon: An individual or an organization says, supports or promotes something that

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