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  • Failure Can Inspire Humility (If You’re Wise)

    Failure Can Inspire Humility (If You’re Wise)0

    Failure is like the original sin in the biblical narrative: everyone has it. Regardless of class, caste, race, or gender, we are all born to fail, we practise failure for as long as we live, and pass it on to others. Just like sin, failure can be disgraceful, shameful and embarrassing to admit. And did

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  • Can we learn from Thucydides’ writings on the Trump of ancient Athens?

    Can we learn from Thucydides’ writings on the Trump of ancient Athens?0

    There is much consternation, and quite a bit of alarm, at the recent vote of the British people to leave the EU, and the equally astonishing emergence of Donald Trump as the Republican candidate for the US presidency. Early on in these campaigns there was a tendency to mock Trump as a bit of a

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  • A Recommended Reading List – from C.S. Lewis

    A Recommended Reading List – from C.S. Lewis0

    Over at the blog A Pilgrim in Narnia, Brenton Dickieson has done something kind of cool. He has taken C.S. Lewis’ book An Experiment in Criticism—in which Lewis attempts to answer the question “what makes a great book?”—and listed in chronological order all of the great books that Lewis references. The list serves not only

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  • Tyler Perry Responds to Charge His New Show is ‘Too White’

    Tyler Perry Responds to Charge His New Show is ‘Too White’0

    Director Tyler Perry has a new show that that debuted on TLC last night, but what caught most people’s attention is the color of many cast members. Perry, BET reports, is taking heat for the number of white actors in the show, which is called Tyler Perry’s Too Close to Home. Unfortunately, the show is

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  • Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

    Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers0

    Oddly enough in our hyper-cynical society, there seems to be little questioning about underlying goals of some of the #BlackLivesMatter protests and related on-campus activism. Not to worry, Tom Wolfe did the job, pulling back the curtain for us way back in 1970. That’s probably a good thing since there probably aren’t any authors who

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  • Margaret Mead and Agenda-Driven Social Science0

    Recently, Japanese universities started moving away from liberal arts and social sciences, sending global “shivers down academic spines.” The official reason given was a need to focus on disciplines more needed by society.   There’s been considerable self-examination  about the direction of science at the highest levels, including in recent editorials in top science journal Nature. That’s a good sign: we can’t fix

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