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  • Why Did Elite Students Cheer the Atrocities of Hamas?

    Why Did Elite Students Cheer the Atrocities of Hamas?3

    I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror

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  • Voters Down Under Reject Woke Agenda

    Voters Down Under Reject Woke Agenda3

    Across the Western world, there is a brooding sense of inevitability about the triumph of wokeness. But what if that inevitability is overstated? Australia and New Zealand each held important electoral contests over the weekend, with voters in both nations rejecting woke ideas and woke politicians in spectacular fashion. First, New Zealand. The Land of

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  • Why Is Education Department Afraid of Innovation in Higher Ed?

    Why Is Education Department Afraid of Innovation in Higher Ed?1

    Online learning has revolutionized higher education, but a recent move by the federal Department of Education is threatening to tear down systems that are helping millions of students learn. An extremely wide diversity of students choose to take online courses or to get entire online degrees. Colleges that offer them need to be nimble as the

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  • The Incandescent Ban and the Lie of LED Efficiency

    The Incandescent Ban and the Lie of LED Efficiency0

    It happened as I went to grab a new package of baby wipes from under the sink. I flipped on my bathroom light, and I noticed something strange—one of my three mirror light bulbs began flickering and ultimately settled at a barely luminous dim setting. My LED light went out. The problem is, I changed

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  • Are We Addicted to Our Screens? How Can We Break Free?

    Are We Addicted to Our Screens? How Can We Break Free?5

    Habitually reaching into our purses or pockets to check our messages, staying up through the wee hours of the morning scrolling on social media, hearing phantom phone vibrations—these are all sure signs of a screen addiction. Like most people in the world these days, I have struggled with controlling my use of screens and technology.

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  • Civilization Is Permanence, Barbarism Is Instability

    Civilization Is Permanence, Barbarism Is Instability6

    In Part 1 of his 1969 documentary series on the history of Western art, Kenneth Clark defines civilization in a rather illuminating manner: Civilization means something more than energy and will and creative power, something the early Norsemen hadn’t got, but which, even in their time, was beginning to reappear in Western Europe. How can

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