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The Therapeutic Power of Stories 1
- Featured, Health, Literature
- November 8, 2024
Stories hold a powerful sway over the human spirit. They reach us on the deepest levels, moving, inspiring, instructing, and even healing us, as modern therapeutic practice has shown. Stories and poems consolidate and interpret random occurrences and emotional and sensory activity—the raw inputs of experience—into a meaningful whole. This allows us to understand reality
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Does Trump’s Historic Win Call Into Question the Woke Narrative?1
- Culture, Featured, Politics
- November 7, 2024
The details of Donald Trump’s decisive victory over Kamala Harris in the 2024 election point to a substantial political realignment in America. Many voting groups traditionally tied to the Democrat party appear to be moving toward the Republicans, or at least toward Trump and what he represents. Trump made substantial gains among black voters and
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‘Cultural Appropriation’ in Writing: Why Authors Aren’t Restricted to Experience 0
- Culture, Education, Featured, Literature
- November 7, 2024
Going to class rarely makes me feel tense, but this time—sitting in an upper-level writing ethics course—I was scared to speak up. My class was discussing cultural appropriation: whether it was right for majority-race authors to take on minority-race perspectives in their work. My classmates were almost universally against the idea, saying that a person
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How to Step Into a New Future 1
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink
- November 6, 2024
They say the road to success is made by walking. For kids, that is literally true. Turns out that the more kids walk around, the more upward mobility they enjoy as adults, concluded a study in American Psychologist. The researchers, led by Shigehiro Oishi, wondered why there are such “large regional differences in upward social
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Solzhenitsyn, Lysenkoism, and the Lies of the Revolution 2
- History, Featured
- November 5, 2024
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was the most important Soviet dissident, but his message was accessible to all. On the day before he was sent into exile in 1974, he published a short essay entitled “Live Not By Lies.” It only takes him a few pages to lay out the most effective strategy for resisting totalitarianism. As Solzhenitsyn
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I Question the Protests on College Campuses Like Mine. Here’s Why.5
- Culture, Education, Featured
- November 1, 2024
Tensions about the Israel-Palestine conflict came to a head on many college campuses last spring. Tents arrived as students camped out for days, sometimes weeks. Some protests were disbanded through peaceful negotiation with administrators, while others were broken up by riot police, including at my own school. The result has been anything but peaceful. Students
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