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  • Why Minimal Sleep is Not a Badge of Honor

    Why Minimal Sleep is Not a Badge of Honor0

    “I need you to make sure that I don’t walk into any walls or trip on the stairs,” one of my friends recently informed me. Her reason? She was running on about three and a half hours of sleep and was struggling with the simple task of walking. I hadn’t gotten much more sleep than

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  • Does the Old-Fashioned Art of Visiting Need Reviving?

    Does the Old-Fashioned Art of Visiting Need Reviving?0

    In the novels of Louisa May Alcott, a time prior to the invention of the telephone, and even into the middle of the twentieth century with telephones in most homes, neighbors and families practiced the art of visiting. Sundays and holidays were especially the times that encouraged this sociable aspect of ordinary life. These visits

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  • Revered College President Explains What Parents Miss in Preparing Their Children for College

    Revered College President Explains What Parents Miss in Preparing Their Children for College0

    Packing up the car and taking a kid to college is always hard. Mom holds back tears and worries about the health of her “baby.” Dad checks and rechecks to make sure Johnny has what he needs and knows who to contact if he doesn’t. And then the goodbyes are said and Johnny is left

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  • Young Minds Are Undermined by Today’s Fashionable Philosophies

    Young Minds Are Undermined by Today’s Fashionable Philosophies0

    Rates of teenage depression and suicide in America are rising. Attempts to explain this increase have centered around ideas that are now pervasive in academia and entertainment media: identity politics, victim-culture, the unearned “self-esteem movement,” and the dreaded post-modernism (as it applies to philosophy and the humanities, not the arts). I contend that a lot

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  • A Night Enforcing Immigration Laws on the US-Mexico Border

    A Night Enforcing Immigration Laws on the US-Mexico Border0

    Since the beginning of his presidential campaign, the U.S.-Mexico border has been a focus of Donald Trump’s anger and political appeal. That border is where more than 18,500 of the country’s 19,437 Border Patrol agents work, trying to stop people from crossing illegally into the U.S. For all the heat and headlines around this border,

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  • What Putin is Doing Right… and What the West is Not Doing at All

    What Putin is Doing Right… and What the West is Not Doing at All0

    This weekend’s Wall Street Journal featured an interesting article about Hungary, a former Soviet bloc country that fled to NATO after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and is now moving closer to Putin’s Russia. As the article mentions, it is one more example of the break up of the Cold War anti-Soviet alliance, and

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