Culture

Why Time Speeds Up as We Get Older (And What We Can Do About It)0
- Culture
- April 2, 2019
Time seems to go faster as we age. When we were children, the school year and then the summer seemed to stretch forever. As adults, we wonder where the time went. Duke University engineering professor Adrian Bejan believes he can explain this universal phenomenon. Bejan found as we age our ability to process mental images
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How Would Dostoevsky Have Responded to the Smartphone?0
- Culture
- April 2, 2019
“I don’t know how to make friends without my phone,” a teenager told me last summer when I found myself enforcing a policy banning screens at a student seminar I was helping with. I was a little surprised by this line of reasoning, but I’ve encountered it more than a few times since from teens
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Victimhood: How Does It Start?0
- Culture
- April 1, 2019
During my senior year in college, my theatre class read Spinning Into Butter by Rebecca Gilman. The plot portrays the interactions between students and the Dean of a privileged liberal arts school in Vermont. Interactions with two students in particular take center stage, the one an African American who is thought to be the victim
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What Jordan Peterson’s Response to a Disturbed Fan Teaches about Humility 0
- Culture
- April 1, 2019
Last week, Jordan Peterson spoke at the Liberty University convocation (full video here). It was an unusual venue for a secular man, a clinical psychologist who is decidedly not an Evangelical in his style or his belief. Esther O’Reilly at Patheos talks about something that happened during the Q&A portion of his talk. If you want to
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Have the Elites Lost Their Mandate?0
- Culture
- March 29, 2019
In ancient Greek tragedy, the hero rises to fame only to be undone by hubris, the fatal flaw of overweening arrogance. But to understand the events that continue to unfold around the 2016 presidential election, it’s helpful to look farther east. A generation before Sophocles chronicled the rise and fall of Oedipus, Confucius looked at
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Two Ways Our World Resembles ‘1984’0
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- March 29, 2019
When I took 1984 with me on vacation recently, I didn’t expect to read it. Unlike the two other books with me—Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life and Matt Ridley’s The Rational Optimist—I had already read Orwell’s classic work. Or had I? It had been at least 25 years. Most of what I remembered seemed
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