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Keeping Courage, Resisting Groupthink: The Great Escape of Mary Queen of Scots2
For a teenage boy like Willy Douglas, there was bound to be something appealing about the tall, beautiful, spirited, and forsaken 24-year-old queen imprisoned in Lochleven Castle, which lay on an island in the middle of a gray lake in lowland Scotland. Is it any wonder that 16-year-old Willy and his 18-year-old cousin George set
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We Should Heed What This Ex-Soviet Spy Says About Beauty … And Terror8
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy
- October 23, 2024
In the end, the only memorable stories, like the only memorable experiences, are religious and moral. They give men the heart to suffer the ordeal of a life that perpetually rends them between its beauty and its terror. These two sentences, written by Whittaker Chambers, quite literally stopped me in my tracks when I first
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Of Foot Binding and Modern Childhood8
We no longer live in an era of foot binding, writes my Let Grow cofounder Peter Gray, a psychologist who studies the importance of mixed-age, unsupervised play. But for about a thousand years, as he notes in a recent Substack post, girls in China would have their feet broken and bound to stop them from
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Women’s College Volleyball Teams Are Reclaiming Their Sport From Men, One Boycott at a Time4
Boycotts are costly, but they work. This is the lesson female athletes are learning across the United States as they sacrifice short-term gains and glory to reclaim their sports from female-identifying men. The latest news on this front comes out of Nevada, where a fifth women’s college volleyball team has forfeited their game against San
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The Hurricane Helene Response and the Forgotten Americans1
On Thursday September 26, Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region. It soon carved a path of destruction through Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee, and it has claimed over 250 American lives, making it the deadliest hurricane to hit the mainland United States since Katrina in 2005. While the news cycle has
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A Case Against Checking In2
“How are we feeling today?” my teacher began. “Let’s do a quick check-in.” Typically, our check-ins involved a scale of one to five. One was the worst: It meant, the teacher explained, that we felt no motivation, had no energy, and couldn’t wait for the school year to end. Five was the best: It signaled
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