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How Did America Become a Nation of Slobs?38
- Culture
- April 26, 2023
One evening in early April I was waiting for my ten-year-old twin granddaughters to finish their indoor soccer practice when a girl their age approached me and said, “Your coat looks really nice.” It was a wet, chilly evening, and I was wearing a London Fog given me thirty years ago by an elderly widow
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Change Yourself, or Change the World?2
- Philosophy
- April 25, 2023
It’s a perennial philosophical question: What is the best strategy for addressing life’s problems? Change yourself, or change the world? In a clip from a few years ago that a student recently shared with me, the leftist public intellectual Slavoj Žižek offered a take that my student apparently found convincing. To judge from Žižek’s online popularity,
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One Simple Thing Anyone Can Do to Save America 0
- Family
- April 25, 2023
With the American way of life visibly crumbling, I get a lot of people asking me some form of the question, “But what can I do to save America?” I’ve given various answers to those who ask this, but a new pat answer popped into my mind the other day: Be like Amber de la Motte. If
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The Importance of Poetry 5
- Literature
- April 24, 2023
The unfortunate truth is that virtually no one reads poetry anymore. Though there are many reasons why this may be the case, as a former educator, the common grievances I heard against poetry were that it was too abstract, complex, and generally wandering. But it is for these very reasons that poetry is one of
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Medical Schools Look for Activists, Not Healers 0
- Politics, Education
- April 24, 2023
What qualities should medical schools look for in future doctors? Probably academic excellence, experience in the medical sector, loyalty to medical ethics, and good interpersonal skills. These are all characteristics that future doctors should have, but they’re not what medical schools now emphasize. Medical schools are looking for social justice zealots to advance the diversity,
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When Did the Left Become Anti-Health?3
- Politics, Science
- April 21, 2023
For my entire childhood, my mother made sure our family had home-cooked meals. She investigated what was healthy, and the food on the table reflected her knowledge of what was best for our family. She also encouraged all of us to exercise, get outside, and have habits that promoted our overall well-being. Even as an
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