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What Romanticism and Taylor Swift Have in Common 3
- Entertainment, Culture, Featured, Literature, MomThink, Philosophy
- May 1, 2024
Wherever you turn today, you’ll hear about Taylor Swift—her albums, tours, and dating life. For better or for worse, she has a sizeable impact on our culture. It’s no surprise, then, that her most recent album, The Tortured Poets Department, has hit a record number of sales, with 2.61 million debut units as the “best
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Creating Habits in an Age of Distraction 0
- Culture, Featured, MomThink, Science
- April 30, 2024
There’s no doubt that we are more distracted than ever in our age of screens. Everything from the latest news on social media to our favorite movie to online shopping is only a few clicks away. The cost, though, is not a light one: The productive and meaningful habits in our life are taking a
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Shareable Snack: What ‘Dracula’ Teaches Us About Weak Men 1
- Video
- April 30, 2024
For most, Dracula is a novel about horror. After all, Dracula is a blood-sucking fiend who stalks his victims. But beneath the thrills, which draw all the attention, are some serious reflections about masculinity. Watch our video to learn more! Save this article to favorites
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Reality Rejected: New NPR CEO Says ‘There Are Many Truths’6
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy
- April 29, 2024
Do encyclopedias like Wikipedia or news organizations like NPR exist to tell us the truth, to inform us about reality? Perhaps it’s not so simple anymore. The recent example of the former CEO of Wikimedia and new CEO of NPR, Katherine Maher, is a case in point. A pair of Maher’s speeches have been making
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What Four Years of Creative Writing Have Taught Me 4
- Education
- April 29, 2024
In 2020, I took my first college-level creative writing class. It was held on Zoom (compliments of COVID-19), and I wrote a clunky 500-word piece that was, in part, about a bug. Now, at the end of four years of writing prose, poetry, and hymns, my writing has become (at least slightly) more sophisticated. Here
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Ladies, Let’s Start Speaking Well of Men 12
- Culture, Featured, MomThink
- April 26, 2024
There’s ample conversation about toxic masculinity in our culture today. In some circles, the consensus seems to be that all men want nothing but to wield power and subjugate women. Of course, many of us know that this isn’t true of all, or even most, men—we need the gifts of both genders to build a
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