Culture

The Essential Life Lesson in the Series Finale of ‘The Office’0
- Culture
- March 4, 2019
If it’s a good comedy, we laugh with the characters, not at the characters. Joining with them in our common humanity, we have a window to our own foibles. Today, 14 years after its premiere, reruns of The Office remain enduringly popular. The Office entertains while it helps us see how we make life hard
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How Animal Farm is Playing Out in the Democrat Party 0
- Culture
- March 4, 2019
Tennis great Martina Navratilova until recently had long been coronated as a social justice trailblazer. She was one of the first marquee celebrity athletes to come out as gay, and then to advocate lesbian issues in and out of sports. But suddenly the icon seems out of step with her progressive legend status. Navratilova had
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Is Darwinism ‘Still True’? A Journalist Ponders the Question.0
- Culture
- March 1, 2019
G. K. Chesterton, the journalist, did much of his writing for newspapers. Not surprisingly, he was also an inveterate reader of newspapers, and on more than one occasion a newspaper headline sparked one of his essays for the Illustrated London News. One example of this is a headline that read: “Darwinism Is Still True.” Chesterton
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Homer on Why Hospitality is the Greatest Virtue 0
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- March 1, 2019
Perhaps you would like to know what virtue I consider the greatest of all. For me that question is not a difficult one. Though I celebrate courage in my Iliad and perseverance in my Odyssey, there is a third, greater virtue, apart from which civilization can neither thrive nor survive. I speak of xenia, a
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Experts Claim Assisted Suicide isn’t as Painless as We’ve Been Led to Believe 0
- Culture
- March 1, 2019
In places where assisted dying and euthanasia are legal, patients are promised a peaceful death without pain or distress. But in a chilling article in the journal Anaesthesia, an international group of scholars observe that some of these deaths could be inhumane, with patients awake and conscious but unable to move or react. In fact,
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Nine Ways to Actually Help a Friend Through Tragedy 0
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- March 1, 2019
Life is suffering. Tragedy awaits us all. I know from personal experience. Four years ago, my 37-year-old husband was killed in a car accident on a snowy road. Our children, aged 12 to two, were with him but were unharmed. In the midst of my personal tragedies I found listening to Dr. Jordan
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